Terrorism investigations continue into Black Country explosions and pensioner...
West Midlands Police is today continuing investigations under the Terrorism Act into the murder of Birmingham pensioner, Mohammed Saleem, and recent explosions near to mosques in the Black Country. A...
View ArticlePolice commissioner takes part in community door-knock
Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Charles took part in a community walkabout in Holmebrook and Rother to see for himself the issues facing local residents. Commissioner Charles joined the...
View ArticleMan arrested following towpath pensioner attack
A MAN has been arrested after a woman was injured while walking along a canal towpath in Solihull. The 24-year-old local man, was arrested in the garden of a house of Castle Lane at 10:40am on...
View ArticleVideo: banned driver rams police car with pick up truck
A BRAND new police patrol car with just 400 miles on the clock was rammed by a pick-up truck driver who feared officers would discover he was banned from the roads. Audio from in-car cameras capture a...
View ArticleVietnamese drug syndicate smashed by West Midlands Police
MEMBERS of a Vietnamese drug cartel that operated cannabis farms across England from two plush Edgbaston apartments have been handed long jail terms after their syndicate was smashed by West Midlands...
View ArticleDetectives investigate after girl grabbed
POLICE in Walsall have released CCTV of a young man wanted after a girl was grabbed. The lad who is described as smelling of “weed” is caught on camera grabbing an 11-year-old local girl as she walked...
View ArticleMan to appear in court charged with pensioner canal attack
A MAN will appear at Solihull Magistrates’ court this morning (24 July) charged with attacking a pensioner on a Solihull canal. The local man will stand accused of assaulting the 71-year-old as she...
View ArticleAnniversary Appeal From Family Of Murdered Jesse Richards
Almost four years on from his disappearance, the mother of murder victim Jesse Richards has spoken of her heartbreak at the fact that his body has still not been found. On Friday 18 April 2012, five...
View Article18 year old arrested after girl grabbed
Police investigating a report that a girl was grabbed in Walsall on Saturday (20 July) have this morning arrested a man. The 18-year-old from Brownhills was arrested by detectives from the force’s...
View ArticlePolice ask for help from the public to identify body pulled from canal in...
POLICE are appealing for help to identify a woman who’s body was recovered from a Wolverhampton canal yesterday. The woman was found in the early hours of yesterday morning by two passersby at the old...
View ArticlePolice officer killed by one punch, court jails attacker for 3 and a half years
Victim A teenager who killed an off duty police officer as a result of a single punch, has today been jailed at Wolverhampton Crown Court to three and a half years. Dale Dixon, aged 19, had previously...
View Article18 year old appears in court for attempted child abduction
An 18-YEAR-OLD accused of grabbing a school girl has appeared in court charged with attempted kidnap. The lad, from the Brownhills area of the town, appeared before Walsall Magistrates Court today...
View ArticleMan charged with attempted murder of pregnant woman
A MAN will appear at Birmingham Magistrates’ court this morning (30 July) charged with the attempted murder of a pregnant woman who was stabbed on a Stirchley car park on Pershore Road on 1 July. Leon...
View ArticleStaffordshire Police goes Behind the Badge with the Forensics Team
Staffordshire Police this week enters the eighth week of its ‘Behind the Badge’ initiative which seeks to give a better understanding of how each department within the force contributes to keeping...
View ArticlePolice have identified a body found in a Wolverhampton canal
The woman, who is not being named at this time, was found in the early hours of 24 July in the canal basin on Broad Street. Despite several appeals for information and the release of an e-fit image,...
View ArticleShocking video footage of an attack on a man in a Wolverhampton Toilet
CLEAR moving footage captured on CCTV of two men who viciously attacked and injured another man in the toilets of a Wolverhampton pub has been released by police. The attack inside the male toilets of...
View ArticleBus sex attacks – man arrested
A 23-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested this afternoon (Tuesday) in connection with a series of sexual assaults on buses around the Black Country. The alleged assaults occurred on dates in June, July and...
View ArticlePolice arrest man in connection with Wolverhampton pub toilet assault
Police investigating an assault on a man in the male toilets of a Wolverhampton pub, have arrested a man on suspicion of wounding. The 31-year-old man was arrested after he voluntarily went into a...
View ArticleMan jailed for sex with 14-year-old girl
A MAN who had sex with a 14-year-old girl in his car has been jailed. Muhammed Waqas, 23, of Small Heath, Birmingham, had met the girl and her friend though mutual friends. They met up on March 4, when...
View ArticleMan guilty of torching partner and family home
A MAN who doused his former girlfriend in petrol and set her alight in front of her child has been found guilty of attempted murder. Damion Sheldon, 42, from Russells Hall Road, Dudley was found...
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