West 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...

   
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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...

   
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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...

   

• Investigation Launched After Man Stabbed in Hockley

  9 May 2016, 13:03pm

  Police have launched an investigation after a man was stabbed after getting off a bus in Birmingham on Saturday 7 May. Officers were called at 6.08pm following reports that a man had been stabbed several times as two men became involved in an altercation as they got off a bus in Vyse Street, Hockley. The man has been taken to hospital where he remains...

   
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  Two Found Guilty of Killing Teenager Connor Smith

  7 May 2016, 18:47pm

  Two men have today been found guilty of shooting dead a Birmingham teenager following a dispute over a £50 bag of cannabis. Connor Smith was shot dead in the Hawkesley area on 8 October 2015 after Leon Frye, of Rodney Close and Philip Baillie, of Forde...

   
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  Police Appeal After Passenger Stabbed on Bus

  2 May 2016, 15:04pm

  Detectives are appealing for information after a man was stabbed on a Birmingham bus following a row with a fellow passenger. The 22-year-old was travelling on the number 11 bus in Church Road, Yardley, when he got into an argument with a man who stabbed...

   
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  Drugs Ring Crushed by West Midlands Police

  28 Apr 2016, 21:32pm

  Members of a Coventry drugs ring have been jailed for more than 30 years – after their illegal empire was crushed by West Midlands Police. Drugs with a street value of £1.7 million were seized as the force continues its success in tackling organised...

   
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  Charlie Jones Jailed for Attacking Cabbie and Kicking Police Dog

  28 Apr 2016, 14:08pm

  A drunken taxi passenger who assaulted a cabbie and smashed up his car with a hammer after being asked to clean up his own vomit has been locked up for more than two years. Charlie Jones flew into a rage on the evening of 18 October last year when the...