GRIEVING brother Kiker Singh has spoken for the first time of the feud that ripped apart his Chippenham family.
The 35-year-old has revealed that the feud over money did not end with the death of his 51-year-old brother Sawa.
Last week an inquest recorded a verdict of suicide after Wiltshire coroner David Masters was told how Sawa turned a gun on himself, after shooting his 42-year-old brother Kashmira and sister-in-law Dialo, at the family's home in The Causeway last December.
The hearing was told that Sawa Singh was convinced Kashmira was stealing from him.
Kashmira Singh, who still lives at The Causeway house, told the inquest that Sawa and Kiker started civil action in the county court against him.
He told the hearing that compensation money he received after a serious car crash and losing an eye in a racial attack funded the family.
He said: "When they wanted anything, members of the family took it. When that money ran out was when it started. He (Sawa) accused me of keeping money from him and his family.
"He had lost all his property and everything due to his relationship with his mistress and he wanted everything that was mine."
However, his younger brother Kiker insists that it was Kashmira himself who started the court action and is still pursuing it now.
He said he received a letter from Kashmira's solicitor just two days after Sawa's death.
The letter informed him that Kashmira intended continuing with the court action despite his brother's death.
Kiker said: "We said to Kashmira 'you can have all the properties and the house, we don't care. Sawa's gone'.
"All he's interested in is whatever money he can get."
He said the suspicions began around two years ago.
He said: "We were living as one big family and Kashmira was handling all the family money, a bit like an accountant.
"Sawa thought that he had been taking some money from us and went and said to him 'we need to sort this out'.
"But then Kashmira turned it around on us and started these civil proceedings, saying we had been taking money."
Kiker says he cannot forgive his brother for not dropping the court action.
He said: "He had so many chances. At the first hearing Sawa went up to him and said 'instead of carrying this on, let's just sort it out'."
But the court action continued and found in Kashmira's favour.
On November 28 last year costs were awarded against Sawa who faced having to move out of the family home with his wife, children and mother Gurdev.
The simmering feud erupted on December 3 when Sawa shot his brother and sister-in-law then turned the gun on himself.
The inquest heard he laid out his plans to shoot them in a letter to his sons Kalvir and Kondon, found after the triple shooting.
The shooting has ripped apart the previously close family and Kiker Singh believes the damage can never be repaired.
He said: "Whoever pulled the trigger that night, I think Kashmira is responsible for Sawa's death."
Kiker claims his mother Gurdev was forced out of her home by Kashmira.
He said: "It is very simple. Kashmira issued legal proceedings stating that The Causeway house should be rightfully his and legally forced my mother out of her home.
"He did not care about Sawa or the rest of us. He tells everyone he is the victim, the innocent one, but he has started and is continuing to issue legal proceedings against us. He started all this trouble."
He said the family were still grieving for Sawa and the funeral and last week's inquest had been particularly difficult.
He said: "I'll sort of close the door but then the next week I'll get a letter or something and I think it's not going to stop for years.
"You can only imagine what it's been like for the family. You start to get over it but then you've got the funeral, then the inquest and it all gets dragged up again."
He said the family would never forgive Kashmira for refusing to allow part of Sawa's funeral service to be held at his home in The Causeway, in accordance with Sikh religious traditions.
The ceremony was held at Sawa's son Kondon's home in Wood Lane, Chippenham.
Kiker Singh said: "My sister went and asked Kashmira if we could have it at The Causeway and he said he wanted nothing to do with it. On the way to the temple we drove past The Causeway and parked there for a little while, just so he could go near it."
He said Kashmira did not attend the funeral.
He said he and his two brothers had once been close, regularly going out together, but rows over money had escalated out of control.
He said: "All this business over the money could have been sorted out between us months ago and we asked him many times to stop it.
"Sawa just couldn't believe what Kashmira was doing to us. You wouldn't even do that to somebody on the street, let alone your own family, and he just kept pushing him and pushing him,
"Anyone would tell you, the three of us used to go out into town together all the time for a few drinks but then it all started to go wrong about two years ago."
He said Sawa's loss had been a devastating blow.
He said: "My father died when I was five and Sawa was 17 years older than me so he was a bit like a dad to me. We all still miss him a lot."
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