The Midlands

• Man Charged with Offences After EDL Protest in Sheldon

  27 Jun 2016, 15:53pm

  A man has been charged with several offences after being arrested during an English Defence League protest in Sheldon on Saturday 25 June. Thomas Johnstone, of Hitchen Road in Luton, Bedfordshire, has been charged with two counts of racially aggravated public order, two counts of threatening behaviour and obstructing police. The 30-year-old was remanded...

   

• Man Charged with 1986 Basford Rape

  20 Jun 2016, 14:23pm

  A 54-year-old man has been charged with the rape of a woman in Nottingham 30 years ago. John Bainbridge, of Beckett Street, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was arrested by officers from Nottinghamshire Police on Saturday morning 18 June 2016 and has been charged with one count of rape. The offence took place in Vernon Road, Basford, in May 1986. He...

   

• Two More Charged in Aqib Mazhar Murder Investigation

  8 Jun 2016, 15:22pm

  Two more men have been charged overnight with the murder of Aqib Mazhar on 1 June 2016. Qamran Ahmed, 21, and Mohammed Quasim, 24, both of Staindale Drive, Aspley, are due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates Court this morning 8 June, 2016. A third man, aged 24, who was also in police custody on suspicion of murder, has been bailed pending further enquiries. A...

   

• Man Dies After Assault in Forest Fields

  2 Jun 2016, 12:09pm

  Nottinghamshire Police were called at around 8.35pm on Wednesday 1 June 2016 to Russell Road in Forest Fields, Nottingham, following a report of a serious assault. Upon attendance a man in his twenties was found to have suffered a serious injury believed to have been caused by a knife. The man was subsequently taken to Queens Medical Centre where he...

   

• Appeal After Man Assaulted in Woodside Walk, Kings Heath

  30 May 2016, 18:17pm

  Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted in Woodside Walk, Kings Heath, Northampton, earlier this month. The man, who was in his thirties, left the shops on Park Drive and was followed along West Oval by a group of approximately six to seven men who were shouting verbal abuse at him. The man called at a friends house and they both...

   
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  Care Worker Handed Three Life Sentences for Attempted Murders

  28 May 2016, 10:48am

  A former care worker was handed three life sentences on May 27th after attempting to murder staff at the West Bromwich accommodation complex where she worked. Melissa Swift, who had also previously served as a special constable with West Midlands Police,...

   

• Major Child Abuse Investigation Launched in Alum Rock

  25 May 2016, 12:36pm

  Detectives from West Midlands Polices Public Protection Unit (PPU) have charged a man from the Alum Rock area of Birmingham with making indecent images of children. Brian Topliss is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court on 25 May. The 72-year-old was arrested on Monday morning and a full-scale search of his Maitland Road home has been underway...

   

• Teenager Arrested After Schoolboy Stabbing

  24 May 2016, 12:27pm

  Detectives have launched an investigation after a schoolboy was hurt in a stabbing in Birmingham on Monday 23 May. The 16-year-old was attacked near to a bus stop on Monyhull Hall Road, Kings Norton at around 8.30am. He made his way to a nearby school where he collapsed and an ambulance was called. He is currently being treated in hospital for non-life-threatening...

   

• Men Jailed After Drugs Worth Millions Seized

  17 May 2016, 14:46pm

  Four men have been jailed for more than 30 years combined following a £5.5m drugs haul. Ninety-seven litres of liquid amphetamine was seized by officers from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) in June 2015. The find was a result of a vehicle interception at junction 27 of the M1, in Annesley, Nottinghamshire, where the drug was being...

   
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  Investigation Launched After Man Stabbed in Hockley

  14 May 2016, 19:11pm

  Police are appealing for information after a man was stabbed on the 8a bus travelling from Lozells to Birmingham city centre on Saturday 7 May. Our officers were called to Vyse Street in Hockley at around 6pm. The 28-year-old was treated by the ambulance...