Murderer in brutal Wolverhampton Britannia Hotel bloodbath jailed for 24 years
A spurned secret boyfriend was today starting a life sentence for the frenzied murder of a mother of two in a Wolverhampton hotel.
Gurminder Singh will spend at least 24 years behind bars after the horrific bloodbath at the Britannia Hotel.
Singh, 29, slashed the throat of Amandeep Kaur Hothi more than 10 times with a craft knife in the room he had booked on March 5.
He later cut his own throat but survived after calling an ambulance to the scene the following morning.
The 29-year-old victim was married to factory worker, Pal Singh and living with him in Wolverhampton but leading a secret double life.
Unknown to her husband, she had met the man who would murder her through a Facebook account she used under a false name of Simran Sandhu.
Supermarket worker Gurminder Singh did not know Mrs Hothi was married and killed her after discovering she wanted to end a relationship that lasted over 12 months and throughout which she had repeatedly lied to him.
They had conversed via Skype thousands of times, spoken on a second mobile phone kept secret from her family and the defendant had travelled from his home in London to Wolverhampton nine times to see her.
On the last occasion, he arrived armed with a craft knife from the supermarket below the flat where he lived in Green Lane, Forest Gate, that he used to kill her.
Judge John Warner said: "By then you knew she wanted to end the relationship.
"What led her to go into the hotel with you we will never know but she phoned her husband screaming that she was being attacked, as indeed she was in the most brutal manner.
"You knew exactly what you were doing. This was a quite deliberate, sustained attack involving the most extreme violence.
"She was leading a double life but in the face of the horrific thing that happened to her, nobody should be in any way judgemental with her. Her mistake was to get involved with you. Your view was that if you could not have her, then no one else would."
A jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court unanimously convicted the defendant of murder following a trial lasting almost two weeks.
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