Ashok Aggarwal
London, Tuesday, 02 September , 2003
Two NRI hoteliers Amarjit Singh, 50, and his 35-year-old
nephew Raginder Singh were shot dead by three Asian men here following
a row over a parking space at their family-run hotel, police said
today.
They were killed in broad daylight outside their Forest View Hotel
in East London last Friday.
A spokeswoman of the Scotland Yard told PTI that
the hoteliers had asked two groups of Asian men to move cars from
a private parking space at the back of their hotel.
One of the groups left but three men returned and
began vandalising a van belonging to the Singhs. When the Singhs
went out to investigate, they were shot and killed on the spot.
The group ran off.
Police have found no link between the killings and
the hotelier's business interests. An elderly neighbour while
describing the two Singhs as belonging to a peaceful family who
had migrated from Punjab, told the officers that the area was
"plagued by drug dealers and prostitutes". The Singhs
were trying to stop the goings-on
The victims, who were both married with two children,
lived in the same family house in Chigwell, Essex.
