Family of West Bromwich murder victim in information plea
The family of a man whose body was found with his throat cut in a Black Country park's boating lake have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
Their plea comes as they revealed they believed he may have gone to meet a woman. Jasbir Singh Bains, aged 41, was discovered in the water in Dartmouth Park, West Bromwich, last Wednesday.
His cousin, 40-year-old Balwinder Singh Bains, was the last person to see him alive – the night before his body was found – and has spoken about the cousin he grew up with.
Mr Bains said that his cousin had been having housing difficulties, and in the days leading up to his death he had been sleeping rough.
He had booked him into the Desi Junction Hotel in West Bromwich so that he could clean himself up.
During a press conference, he said: "I told him to stay there so he could sort his head out.
"He did tell me he had got a girl pregnant and had received a death threat.
"But he was mumbling and I took everything with a pinch of salt.
"I gave him £20 for food the next day, and thought he would stay there all night.
"But I think he was lured into a meeting at the park.
"I can't understand why he would come here."
Mr Bains added that his cousin, a machinist, had three sons, aged 13, six and two.
Recalling his childhood, he added: "We used to come to the park to play. This is somewhere we knew very well.
"Jasbir was a fun-loving person, and was a friend to everyone. To think he died like this is shocking."
Police do not think the attack was random and said there was no struggle. Call CID at Harborne on 101.
