Baljit Singh murder: Convicted murderer and girlfriend dealt cocaine before killing
A convicted murderer and the girlfriend who gave evidence against him have both admitted dealing cocaine before the killing.
Stuart Millership was locked up for at least 25 years in July and dubbed 'depraved' by police after he battered and stabbed a friend to death last December.
The callous killer, 33, then hid the body for nine days until it was discovered by police in the cellar of the rented house in Beeches Road, Rowley Regis, he shared with Jade Whitehouse, who knew nothing about the murder.
She gave evidence for the prosecution from behind a screen during the murder case and stood some distance apart from him when the pair appeared in the dock at Wolverhampton Crown Court with his cousin Scott Hadley yesterday.
Millership, Whitehouse, 28, now living at Hollybush Walk, Cradley Heath and Hadley, also 28, from Rowan Rise, Kingswinford, all admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine between January 1, 2014 and January 1, 2015. The two men further pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply cannabis between the same dates.
Miss Lynette McClement, defending, Millership told the court: "He is currently serving a life sentence and I am not requesting a pre-sentence report in his case."
But the matter was adjourned until November 25 so that reports could be prepared for the other defendants. Recorder John Edwards granted the pair bail and warned: "The judge who sentences you will give you credit for your guilty pleas but these are very serious matters indeed."
Millership was high on cocaine when he bludgeoned 50-year-old Baljit 'Bill' Singh over the head up to 20 times with a blunt instrument – possibly a short iron bar like a wheel brace.
The victim, whose hands were broken as he frantically tried to fend off the blows, was then stabbed in the neck and either fell or was pushed down the stairs into the cellar where the body lay hidden until found by police.
The victim was discovered on New Year's Day less than 24 hours after Millership had been arrested on suspicion of stealing Mr Singh's £15,000 Range Rover.
He had 'completely lost it' when Mr Singh refused to give him the car in settlement of an alleged debt. Millership admitted the murder and a Newton Hearing concluded he was solely responsible for the crime after a judge dismissed his story that two Albanian gangsters delivered the fatal blows.
The defendant revealed while giving evidence to that hearing that he had been dealing drugs with Whitehouse and Hadley.
