Thaindian News

London, June 9 (IANS) A 60-year-old Indian-origin immigrant has been sentenced to life in prison for battering a man to death in Britain, a media report said.

Jaswinder Singh - who is also wanted in Germany - attacked 31-year-old Harbarjan Singh and two friends with a metal bar as they slept in a cemetery in Ilford, Essex, the Daily Mail reported.

He has now been jailed for life with a minimum of 24 years before parole for one count of murder and two of attempted murder.

Singh, who used 14 aliases and gave false dates of birth, came to Britain illegally in 1995 before moving to Germany.

In 2000, he was jailed in Germany for smashing a beer glass on the face of his then girlfriend and failing to pay maintenance for his son.

After serving two-thirds of his sentence he was released on parole. He then sneaked back to Britain.

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) found him and began trying to deport him in 2002. The process got disrupted, and in 2004, 2006 and 2010 Singh was jailed for grievous bodily harm, actual bodily harm and assault.

Police said that each time he was imprisoned, the deportation process was stopped and had to be started again on his release.

The judge said Singh had a “tendency to explosive and disruptive violence”.

“I am quite satisfied you carefully followed the three and waited until they were going to sleep or actually were asleep before attacking them. You are a bulky man and have a propensity for violence,” he said.

A UKBA spokesman said the agency will seek to deport Singh at the end of his sentence.