Three jailed following robbery and fatal collision
Three men have been jailed for a motorcycle robbery which resulted in the death of their friend.
All four were at Barr Beacon Park in Great Barr where a 31-year-old motorcyclist was pushed off his bike and assaulted.
A 19-year-old made off on the Honda CBR600, but the bike was involved in a head-on collision on Beacon Road, Pheasey, just minutes later and the rider sadly died at the scene on June 27, 2019.
The other three had made their getaway in a Ford Fiesta and, after stopping at the collision site, were seen running back to the car before emergency services arrived.
But after Nirvair Lall and Inderjot Singh returned sometime later, they were pointed out to police by a witness.
The pair were arrested along with Aaron Dhaliwal, the registered keeper of the car.
The 22-year-old Dhaliwal, of Himley Road in Dudley, admitted his involvement in the robbery, and later pleaded guilty.
Lall, aged 21 from Amberley Green, and 21-year-old Singh from Farran Way, both in Great Barr, refused to comment in interview and a trial was set for December 2020.
Singh changed his plea to guilty on the first day of the first trial on December 14 at the new Nightingale Court, a temporary facility set up in Birmingham’s Repertory Theatre during the pandemic, with Lall found guilty five days later.
The three men were sentenced on Friday, March 12, with Lall being jailed for three years and six months, Singh to three years and one month, and Dhaliwal for two years and four months.
The judge described Lall as "cold and heartless" after he left the scene "clearly knowing it was serious as someone was delivering CPR."
He also added that was in stark contrast to the victim, who despite having been beaten and robbed, still asked a witness about the condition of the deceased.
The judge said: "The victim showed more concern, than you did for your own friend."
Detective Sergeant Kerry Haywood said: "This was a tragic outcome for a young man to lose his life even though a crime had been committed.
"His friends not only have to serve a prison sentence, but have to live with the circumstances of his death."
