Friday 19th March 2010
Bestway Group Gets Behind Petition to Support Justice for Retail Trade
Batleys and Bestway cash and carrys 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 indiscriminate 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 who are on the front line when it comes to crime that is affecting a great deal of the convenience store sector and local communities across the UK.
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.”
Download the Petition (PDF, 68kb)