Baljit Singh murder: Killer serving life is jailed for drugs racket

Stuart Millership ran a drugs racket for a year with his former girlfriend, Jade Whitehouse, who avoided jail after appearing at Birmingham Crown Court.

Millership, 33, of Beeches Road, Rowley Regis was sentenced to 25 years for murdering his business associate and landlord, Baljit Singh, and stashing his body in a cellar for eight days in July.

He pleaded guilty along with Whitehouse, 28, of Holly Bush Walk, Cradley Heath, and his cousin, Scott Hadley, to conspiracy to supply cocaine.

Millership and Hadley, 29, of Rowan Rise, Kingswinford, who also avoided jail, admitted a further charge of conspiracy to supply cannabis.

Millership, who was sentenced in his absence after refusing to leave his cell, handed a letter to the recorder through his barrister and admitted to being the ring leader of both the cannabis and cocaine operations. He was given four years to run concurrently with his life sentence.

Whitehouse and Hadley were each given a two year sentence suspended for two years, ordered to carry out 250 hours community service and given a curfew to reside at their addresses from 8pm to 6am.

Whitehouse was also given a six month supervision order and Hadley a further nine month suspended sentence for the cannabis charge.

The court heard yesterday how Whitehouse had become addicted for drugs and alcohol and had been pressured into using her bank account and phone for the drugs operation by Millership.

Hadley, who had been smoking cannabis since the age of 14, had been involved for two months.

Recorder Charles Foster said: "This is an unusual drug and supply case. I have read testimonies for both Mr Hadley and Miss Whitehouse that show they are more than able to lead useful lives.

"I have had to take the view as to who was the brains behind the operation and I have been assisted by the letter sent in by Mr Millership.

"The basis of that letter was the operation was his doing and he accepts responsibility for it."

The court heard how police had been alerted to the drugs when a tracker on Mr Singh's Range Rover, which had been stolen by Millership following the murder, had been triggered.

Police cars and a helicopter were sent to Hadley's house in Roman Rise on New Year's Eve where the car was parked. Police eventually recovered 13.5 grams of cocaine with a street value of up to £1,500 from a bag thrown over a fence and 9.1 grams of cannabis worth up to £100 from a bedroom.Millership was later arrested for the murder Mr Singh, who had been brutally killed eight days before.