Ground-breaking car cruise ban continued by High Court
A ground-breaking injunction banning car cruising in the Black Country has been permitted to continue. The High Court, sitting in Birmingham on Monday (7 March), heard the introduction of the...
View ArticleWaiter jailed for knife robbery after diners recognise him from CCTV
A waiter who snatched a woman’s handbag at knife point from a shopping centre has been jailed after an image circulated by West Midlands Police was recognised by diners. Sheraz Shafi (pictured) struck...
View Article12 years jail for rapist who attacked woman in his home
A man who repeatedly raped a woman has been jailed for 12 years following a West Midlands Police investigation. Darren Nesbitt (pictured), from Arden Street in Dorridge, had invited the woman to stay...
View ArticleExtra time to quiz terror suspects
Magistrates have granted police extra time to question five men arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. Detectives from the West...
View ArticleMan charged with murder over fatal Birmingham stabbing
A man will appear before magistrates tomorrow (Mon 29 Aug) charged with stabbing another man to death outside a Birmingham off licence. Alexander Habte, of Conybere Street in Highgate, was charged...
View ArticleFamily praise WMP after Police Dog recovers stolen phone
A thankful family has praised West Midlands Police after their expensive new phone was found by a police dog after being tracked across Birmingham by officers. The Akhtar family from Surrey had been...
View ArticleAppeal for information following shooting in Birmingham
An investigation has been launched after a man was shot in Birmingham in the early hours of this morning (Monday 29 August). An 18-year-old man was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg in...
View ArticleHuge fall in metal theft as grip tightens on rogue dealers
Rates of metal theft across the region have plummeted following a West Midlands Police crackdown on the illegal scrap trade. In late 2012 the force was registering an average of more than 350 metal...
View ArticleHelp us catch cruel thugs who targeted disabled woman and mum
Detectives are appealing for the public’s help to trace heartless thugs who tried to steal a specially adapted disability vehicle from the mum of a cerebral palsy sufferer. The men struck just before...
View ArticleFamilies among those jailed in drug crime blitz
Entire families are among 62 people and sentenced to almost a century behind bars in a Sandwell blitz on drug dealers and criminals. Mothers and sons, partners, brothers and brothers-in-law as well as...
View ArticleJAILED: Convicted £2m tax dodging businessman hit with decade behind bars
A man who built a Buckingham Palace style mansion by dodging taxes has been jailed for a decade after he failed to pay back the whopping £2 million he owed to the public coffers. Mohammed Suleman Khan...
View ArticleSchools across Birmingham and the Black Country targeted by bomb hoaxes
Seven schools have been targeted by bomb hoaxers this morning (Monday 8 February). The calls – received by each of the schools – were made from around 8am. As with the previous alerts each call was...
View ArticlePolice postcard to crooks asks: “Prison…wish you were here?"
West Midlands Police is reaching out to crooks with a postcard warning they’ll soon be back behind bars unless they ditch their criminal ways. Postcards have been sent to 150 convicted offenders in...
View ArticlePolice hit back at unsafe Selly Oak claims
Birmingham Police have branded claims that they are not tackling crimes in Selly Oak as “unfair”. Officers have spoken out following inaccurate reports that crime in the area has rocketed over recent...
View ArticleForce sets out plans for the year
WMP has launched its annual strategic assessment which sets out the force’s priorities for the coming year. Entitled ‘Creating safe and healthy futures’, it focuses on reducing violence and investing...
View ArticleBirmingham men jailed for ‘Ghost Broker’ insurance scam
Four men from Birmingham have been sentenced after a ghost-broker insurance scam was uncovered by detectives from the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED), part of the City of London Police....
View ArticleStudent to appear before court accused of copycat college bomb hoax
Police have charged a man in connection with a hoax bomb threat made to a college in Sandwell. Scott McLaughlin, 20, from Cavendish Road, Edgbaston in Birmingham was arrested by officers on Wednesday...
View ArticleCoventry man jailed for glassing fellow drinker in unprovoked pub attack
A man who glassed a fellow drinker in an unprovoked attack at a Coventry pub has been jailed for six years and eight months after pleading guilty to wounding. Mark Morgan was drunk when he attacked a...
View ArticlePolice launch Birmingham gun probe after man shot
Police are investigating after a man was shot in south Birmingham last night (Thursday). Officers were called to a house address on Redhill Road, Hawkesley at around 10:20pm following reports of a man...
View ArticleWalsall group convicted of terror offences
Four people, two men and two women from Walsall, have been convicted of Syria related terrorism offences at court today (Wednesday 24 February). Ayman Shaukat, aged 27, from Pargeter Street, was found...
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