THE grieving brother of 52-year-old Sawa Singh, who died after injuring two relatives in a shooting, says nobody will ever know what happened on that bloody night in December.

Speaking after the suicide verdict at Sawa's inquest in Chippenham last Wednesday, Kiker Singh said the whole truth about the shooting has not yet come out.

The inquest was told that father-of-three Sawa shot and wounded his brother Kashmira, 42, and Kashmira's wife Dialo, 38, before turning the gun on himself following a feud over money.

Kiker, 35, said the three brothers had been inseparable with Sawa and Kashmira sharing a house with their families and their mother in The Causeway, Chippenham.

But it all began to go wrong about two years ago when rows over money surfaced.

Kiker, who looked up to Sawa as a father figure, says it was Kashmira who started legal proceedings against him and Sawa for allegedly stealing money from him.

It was these arguments over family money which eventually pushed Sawa to breaking point, when he used a gun stolen from Kashmira and took his bloody revenge.

On the same day as the inquest, Kashmira's solicitor was continuing the legal proceedings against Kiker at Trowbridge County Court.

"It is not just a simple case of Sawa having snapped and shot him," said Kiker.

He says Kashmira does not seem to care that their oldest brother is dead.

Kiker says he was disgusted when Kashmira failed to turn up at Sawa's funeral in December and refused to let the Sikh service be carried out at The Causeway home, which is an important religious tradition.

Kiker says he cannot see the bitter arguments ever coming to an end because Kashmira, who has not worked since being injured in a car accident in 1986, will not back down on the civil proceedings against him.

"Whoever pulled the trigger that night, I think Kashmira is responsible for Sawa's death," 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 would not even do that to somebody on the street, let alone your own family, and he just kept pushing him and pushing him.

"We were basically all living as one big family and because of his accident, 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 said Kashmira had been looking after all the family bank accounts, even those not in his name, and the family money was treated as one big pot, with cars and properties all being viewed as belonging to them all.

He added: "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."

Kiker says he cannot forgive his brother for not backing down on the court action months ago and preventing the family being completely torn apart.

"He had so many chances," said Kiker. "At the first hearing Sawa went up to him and said 'instead of carrying this on, let's just sort it out'."

Kiker says amid the gossip following the shooting, people had lost sight of the fact his family had lost a well-loved relative.

"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. Obviously we all still miss him a lot."

Kiker said two days after Sawa died he received a letter from Kashmira's solicitor, informing him that he was going to carry on with the civil proceedings despite what had happened.

"We said to Kashmira 'you can have all the properties and the house, we don't care. Sawa's gone'."

Mr Singh said the scene inside The Causeway house was horrific.

"There really was blood over all the walls and everywhere, and one of the shots had hit a pipe which leaked and the ceiling came down."

However Mr Singh said it was a real blow to the family when they couldn't hold Sawa's funeral at The Causeway home, and instead it was carried out at the Wood Lane home of Sawa's son Kondon.

"My sister went and asked him (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.

"Kashmira wouldn't have anything to do with the funeral, and instead we just got 20 more court letters."

Now if any of the family pass Kashmira in the street they do not speak and Kashmira does not allow his five children to speak to their uncles, aunts and cousins.

Kiker said his mother did not leave The Causeway house, and claims she was forced out by Kashmira.

"It is very simple," he said. "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."

Even now it is hard for the Singh family to put an end to their grieving.

"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," said Kiker.

"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."

Kiker's three year-old daughter still asks if she is going to see her granddad every time they drive past The Causeway house.

Meanwhile Kashmira says he is going to make an official complaint to Wiltshire Police for allegedly failing to investigate the matter properly when he reported his shotguns stolen last April.

Yesterday he denied the allegations made by Kiker. "I am not continuing any legal action against Kiker and I did not ask anyone to leave the house here in The Causeway or refuse it to be used for the funeral service.

"My solicitor is currently dealing with a complaint against various police officers regarding a number of matters and we are waiting for a response. I and my family want to get on with our lives."