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Gurpreet Dev,NRI gambler killed his father after stole over £270,000

London, April 22, 2005
Darshan Malhotra
NRI press


NRI Gurpreet Dev, 26, who posed as a wealthy "futures trader", strangled his father after using his name and assets to obtain 277,000 pounds to pay off his gambling debts, a local court was told here. He was claiming that he was earning over a quarter of a million pounds a year through share trading on the internet but he had lost thousands through internet spread betting, the jury heard.

He began defrauding his parents, borrowing money against the mortgage to the family home where he was living and taking out loans in their name to cover his debts, the court was told.

On October 26 2003 Dev killed his 59-year old father Harjit before dumping his body in the boot of his car, the court heard. And he told the jury that the day before the murder Dev had used Yahoo to make two internet searches - "murder poison" and "murder kill".

He told the court that the body lay undiscovered in a nearby road for several months before police found the corpse. He placed his father's body into a suitcase and perhaps strangely stored it for several months in the boot of a Ford car until it was found by the police in that vehicle which he had abandoned in a street not far from where the family lived.

Gurpreet was the only member of the household not to have a job and instead tried to make a living by spread betting and playing the stock exchange online, said Sir John. The family lived in Pembroke Road in Seven Kings, Ilford. Along with factory worker Mr Dev were his wife, the defendant Gurpreet, his two sisters, a family friend and a nephew.

Dev himself joined in searches and even made the official missing persons report to police, said Sir John. But despite house to house inquiries, posters and publicity in the papers and TV the disappearance remained a mystery, the court heard. Sir John told the jury that less than two months after the killing Dev was claiming to have sold the Ford and had brought himself a BMW 5 series.

Dev was later declared bankrupt.

In March the body was found and Dev was later arrested, said Sir John. He told the jury that while in Belmarsh prison he plotted with Whelan to bribe one of Whelan's friends to make a statement blaming someone else for the killing.

Dev denies murder. He and Whelan, of Woolwich, southeast London, both deny conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

 

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