An Indian-origin Sikh, who became UK’s first-ever ethnic minority judge and the first to sit on the English Bench wearing a turban instead of a horsehair wig, has died. Mota Singh was found unconscious on Friday and was taken to hospital but did not recover, the metro.co.uk reported. Paying tribute to him, his wife Swaran Kaur said: “He was a wonderful person who achieved so much in his life. He was so hard working.”Singh, a Ramgarhia Sikh, born in 1930 in Nairobi, Kenya, was only 16 when his father Sardar Dalip Singh passed away. Tributes have been pouring in on Twitter, with entrepreneur Rami Ranger calling him a “great ambassador for the Sikh and Indian community”.

Source: Hindustan Times November 14, 2016 14:43 UTC