Building company boss Gurpreet Singh has been cleared of attempting to arrange the £20,000 contract killing of a former spouse, who later died.

A Birmingham Crown Court jury found the 44-year-old company director not guilty of soliciting the murder of Amandeep Kaur in 2013.

Police at the scene on Rookery Lane, Wolverhampton

She died a year later during a trip to India, with authorities in the Punjab concluding she had suffered a brain haemorrhage.

The jury have been deliberating for more than 30 hours.

Sarbjit Kaur was found dead at her home in Wolverhampton

The jury is continuing to deliberate over a separate charge of murder against Singh, in connection to his second wife, Sarbjit Kaur, who was found strangled at their home in Rookery Lane, Penn, Wolverhampton, on February 16 last year.