Wedding crowd car rammer has sentence increased

A man who drove his car into a crowd of people outside a wedding has had his jail sentence increased at the Court of Appeal.

Govinder Singh, 28, seriously injured three people in Leicester when he hit them with his Volkswagen Tiguan in May last year.

After pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm and wounding with intent, Singh was jailed for seven and a half years at Leicester Crown Court in November.

His case was then referred to the Court of Appeal by the Solicitor General, where judges increased the sentence to 10 years after finding the initial term to be "unduly lenient".

Singh, 28, was called to the party at The Regent Sport and Social Club in De Montfort Street on 31 May by his brother, who had been thrown out after arriving uninvited and drunk.

The original court hearing was told how after driving into the crowd, Singh "jumped out of the car and started throwing punches".

He then drove away to park near his house, removing and hiding the licence plates.

Among the injured was a woman who worked at the club who suffered a complex pelvic fracture and other injuries.

Singh's cousin suffered a head injury with an open scalp wound, a brain bleed and a fractured kneecap.

At the Court of Appeal on Friday, Lord Justice Dingemans, sitting with Mr Justice Butcher and Judge Peter Blair KC, said the original sentence was "plainly insufficient" to reflect "all the criminality".

The judge added: "He lied about the use of his car, saying he gave it to someone else but was not sure who drove it away."

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