Man who drove through crowd at Leicester wedding receives longer sentence following appeal
Govinder Singh, 28, seriously injured three people; judges deem original term “unduly lenient"
Last updated 6th Mar 2026
A man who drove his car into a crowd of people outside a wedding has had his jail sentence increased from seven-and-a-half to 10 years at the Court of Appeal.
Govinder Singh, 28, seriously injured three people in Leicester when he hit them with his Volkswagen in May last year.
He went there following a call from his brother, who had arrived drunk and uninvited to the wedding and was subsequently kicked out.
When a fight broke out in the street, Singh drove his car into the crowd before getting out and assaulting people.
He then drove away to park near his house, removing and hiding the licence plates, and police found the car a short time later.
After pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm and wounding with intent, Singh was given seven-and-a-half years' jail at Leicester Crown Court.
His case was then referred to the Court of Appeal by the Solicitor General, where judges increased the sentence to 10 years after finding the initial term to be "unduly lenient".
Lord Justice Dingemans, sitting with Mr Justice Butcher and Judge Peter Blair KC, said at a hearing on Friday that the sentence was "plainly insufficient" to reflect "all the criminality".
The judge said that of the people injured, one suffered fractures to the spine, one had a bleed on the brain, and another had a "5cm wound to the back of his head".
The judge added: "He lied about the use of his car, saying he gave it to someone else but was not sure who drove it away."