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Courts across the county have given out hefty prison sentences for all manner of crimes last month. These are just some of the court cases our reporters covered last month. Here are the criminals and their crimes: Aston Hannis, Charlie Statham, Paul White and Corin Barlow Aston Hannis, Charlie Statham, Paul White and Corin Barlow FRIENDS who lured a drugs supplier to a rural layby and then shot him at point-blank range were jailed for a total of 95 years. Gurinderjit Rai, 41, was shot...

Following the burglary Hannis, of Leah Gardens, Eastleigh, had a large outstanding debt to Mr Rai, also known as G, who supplied him with the drugs. On the night of the murder, Hannis and arranged to meet Mr Rai, who was originally from Eastleigh but was more recently based in Cheshire, in Shepherds Farm Lane, Corhampton. Mr Rai thought that the meeting was to collect money, but it was there that Hannis and friend Charlie Statham, of Crescent Close, Olivers Battery, "carried out the execu...

TWO men have been guilty of the “planned assassination” of a drugs supplier who met his death in a remote layby.

The trial into the murder of drugs supplier Gurinderjit Rai is taking place at Winchester Crown Court THE jury in the trial of five men accused of being involved in the murder of a drugs supplier has asked for a majority verdict. The panel at Winchester Crown Court had been deliberating for close to three and half days when they asked Mrs Justice Cutts for her assistance this afternoon (Thursday). Gurinderjit Rai, 30, was murdered in Shepherds Farm Lane, Corhampton, on July 12, 2019. Mr ...

The friends allege that they had made plans to go to Hodan’s on the night of Mr Rai’s murder to watch Amir Khan’s comeback fight, but the defendant said that White did not arrive until around 11.30pm, and Hannis and Statham around five minutes later, presuming that they had smoked a cigarette outside. Before they arrived Hodan text Hannis: “Don’t leave it too late though people start snooping” and explaining why he said that: “It was more of a message to say, don’t turn up t...

Shepherds Farm Lane, Corhampton. Inset, Gurinderjit Rai A MAN alleged to have been involved in the murder of drugs supplier said that he was “a bit of a blagger” but denied that he ever said that his friends had killed a man, a court heard. Corin Barlow is one of four men accused of killing of Gurinderjit Rai on July 12, 2019, in a layby in Shepherds Farm Lane, Corhampton. A trial at Winchester Crown Court was told earlier that Barlow was referred to as the “king of bullshit” and...

The trial is taking place at Winchester Crown Court Giving evidence in his own defence today (Friday), Barlow said that around the time of July 2019 he had moved in with his partner in Hayward’s Heath, Sussex, and she did not want the gun in her house. He told the court: “He (Tarrant) wanted to have a look at it a few times. He wanted to fire it, he kept going on about wanting to fire it. I said it doesn’t work.” Barlow told the court that Tarrant said he wanted to fire the gun at...

A MAN accused of being involved in the murder of a drugs supplier said that he was not with his co-defendants around the time of the alleged…

Gurinderjit Rai A MAN who is accused of being involved in the shooting of a drugs supplier has denied that his co-defendant was telling him to lie to police during covert recordings. Charlie Statham and Aston Hannis were both secretly recorded in a police van following their arrest for the murder of Gurinderjit Rai 30, who was shot in a layby on Shepherds Farm Lane, Corhampton, on July 12, 2019. It is the pair’s case that they were at fellow accused Philip Hodan’s house where they had...

A MURDER accused said he was a “dribbling mess” and has no memory of his actions of the night a drugs supplier was shot in a countryside layby,…