'A mood of celebration' - Murder accused 'gloated' on SnapChat after killing DPD driver in Shrewsbury, court told
A jury was told that the men accused of murdering a delivery driver in a "brutal" attack filmed videos for social media in "celebration".
Aurman Singh was killed in Berwick Avenue, Shrewsbury on August 21 last year while out delivering parcels for DPD.
Five men are on trial at Stafford Crown Court accused of his murder. The jury has been told the alleged killers travelled from the Black Country, before beating and hacking 23-year-old Mr Singh with an array of weapons including an axe, a wooden stave, a golf club and a hockey stick, leaving him bleeding to death in the street.
Prosecutor Simon Denison KC concluded his closing speech, focusing in particular detail on the "boasting" social media videos posted by some of the alleged murderers, having been filmed from inside a car as they made their getaway.
"The mood inside the car was a mood of celebration and boasting and gloating" the prosecutor said. "At least two of them were straight onto SnapChat to send videos, boasting of what they had done. They were in this together, just as they have stuck together with their story."
