Batleys and Bestway cash and carry depots across the UK have agreed to support a petition in support of tougher sentences for perpetrators of violent crime and for the greater support and protection for retailers generally.
The self-action that has been generated by the retail trade themselves and has been sparked by the murder of Gurmail Singh in Huddersfield on 20 February.
The petition forms are now available at all Batley and Bestway depots for retailers to sign, these will then be forwarded to 10 Downing Street to register with the Prime Minister the general dissatisfaction of lenient sentences handed down to criminals who attack retailers.
Martin Race, operations director of Batleys Cash and Carry, said: “Gurmail Singh was a highly respected, and long-serving customer of Batleys, and his son, Bobby, worked with us until he left to help his family run the business last year.
“Both Batleys and all the Bestway branches are totally behind this petition and have given it the serious publicity it deserves throughout the group estate.
“We want everyone to sign it and then hopefully the government will start to take this heinous crime seriously and issue justifiable sentences.”
Source: Bestway and Batleys
