The incident happened at Counter News near Norwood Junction last year (Picture: Google)
A shop owner beat an employee to death after a customer complained he had his hands down his trousers while talking to a child, a court heard.
Abdul Rahman, 59, suffered a ‘savage beating’ before he was left to die in the doorway of an Aldi near Norwood Junction station last year.
Agash Jeyanandam, 24, the owner of Counter News, told his girlfriend the next morning he was so angry that he took Mr Rahman to the basement of his shop and beat him with a rod-shaped weapon, jurors heard.
Darren Parchment, 21, and Vijay Pethuru, 24, were also in the shop at the time of the attack, it was said.
Jeyanandam, Parchment and Pethuru, all deny murdering Mr Rahman.
Prosecutor Paul Cavin, KC, told the Old Bailey: ‘We allege that all three are jointly responsible for a severe beating that Mr Rahman received in a shop owned by Mr Jeyanandam in the late evening on 6 August 2022.
‘He was then led to and left in the doorway in the nearby branch of Aldi and died sometime thereafter.’
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Mr Rahman’s body was found outside the nearby Aldi (Picture: Google)
He added: ‘The day after Mr Rahman’s body was found, on 8 August, a woman, Sarveswari Selvaseelen, contacted police.
‘She told them that her ex-boyfriend Agash Jeyanandam had telephoned her and told her that he had beaten someone who had then died.
‘She said that around 11am that morning she realised she had some missed calls from Mr Jeyanandam. He told her there had been an incident the day before.
‘He said an ex-employee of his had been the subject of a complaint by a customer to the effect that he had his hands down his trousers when talking to a child and the mother had complained to Mr Jeyanandam.
‘He said he had been so angry he took the ex-employee to the basement of the shop and beat him with a weapon.
‘And he named two other people as having been present in the shop at the time of the beating.
‘The man was then left outside Aldi and when Jayanandam tried to return to the shop the following morning he saw Station Road was blocked off and it was only then he found out that someone, Mr Rahman, had died.’
Mr Rahman’s body was found at 5.36am by a taxi driver who found his trousers were ripped and he was not breathing.
Paramedics attended and examined him, they found also that his body was lying …read more
Source:: Metro
