London, January 25,2012: A 37-year-old Lithuanian national, who was charged with the murders of Indian-origin Avtar Singh Kolar and his wife Carole Kolar in Birmingham, has been remanded to custody and the date for the trial has been fixed as August 28. The bodies of Avtar Singh, 62, and Carlole, 59, were found by their police officer son, Jason, from their house in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham. Of the other two people detained in connection with the murders, a 41-year-old man has been released without charge, and a 24-year-old man is on police bail. Post-mortem tests have confirmed that the couple, who had been married for 40 years, died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head and that both had been struck a number of times. The arrests came after two of the couple’s four children made a desperate plea for help to catch their parents’ killers. Police have repeatedly refused to speculate about a motive for the murders, but said detectives are looking into a number of lines of inquiry, including a rise in burglaries and gold thefts in the area.
