Baljit Singh murder: Inside the mind of killer Stuart Millership
A murderer has revealed how he had no idea what to do with the body of his victim as it lay for eight days in his cellar.
Stuart Millership told Wolverhampton Crown Court: "I didn't have a plan. I didn't know what to do about the situation.
"I realised that I couldn't leave the body there but I wasn't thinking.
"I didn't know what to do. I didn't speak to anybody. I froze and did nothing about it."
Baljit 'Bill' Singh was battered over the head up to 20 times with a blunt instrument – possibly a short iron bar like a wheel brace – in the living room of the house in Beeches Road, Rowley Regis.
He was then stabbed in the neck and either fell or was pushed down the stairs into the cellar.
His body was covered with bin bags, one of which contained the clothing worn by Millership when the attack took place on December 23 last year.
The hooded top and trousers were both stained with the victim's blood, the court has been told.
Millership has pleaded guilty to the murder on the basis that he played a minor role in the attack by preventing Mr Singh from protecting himself during the onslaught.
Millership said the fatal blows were struck after he left the scene by two Albanian gangsters allegedly owed money by the victim.
He claimed to have fled from the house during the attack, snatching the keys to the victim's £15,000 Range Rover from a table top as he left, and driven 'round the block' in the car for more than 20 minutes before returning to find the two Albanians gone and Mr Singh dead in the cellar.
This is contested by the prosecution who insist that Millership acted alone.
Police have shown that one of the supposed killers was behind bars serving a long jail sentence for drug dealing when the crime was committed.
Prosecutor Mr Robert Price said that Millership was alone when viciously attacking Mr Singh over an alleged unpaid £12,500 debt and for the Range Rover.
The defendant denies this, alleging the murder happened at a meeting he had arranged with the two Albanians at the rented home of his girlfriend Jade Whitehouse, where he was living at the time. He insisted: "I did not expect that the day would go in the way it did."
Miss Whitehouse, who was at work, knew nothing of the crime and did not realise the body was in the cellar of the property.
Forensic experts have been unable to say with certainty whether one person or more were involved in the attack.
The pathologist ruled that either the head or stab injuries could have proved fatal on their own.
Millership has given four different accounts of the incident since his arrest less than 24 hours before the body was found by police on New Year's Day. He was originally detained near a relative's address in Kingswinford on suspicion of stealing Mr Singh's Range Rover.
Prosecutor Mr Price told the defendant during cross examination: "You told lie after lie in interview knowing he was in the cellar of the house in which you had been residing.
"You agree that your previous accounts were lies and now refer to someone who was not there at all.
"You adopt one position and, when it is disproved by the evidence, you adopt another. This is a nonsense.
"You are making it up as you go along. You are just trying to save your own skin."
Judge John Warner is now considering his verdict in the case. He will give his findings and pass sentence on Millership after deciding on the part played by the defendant in the murder on Monday.
