Man Sentenced After He Was Found To Have Killed His Wife In Malvern
Francis Brian O’Neill, 78, of Eston Avenue, Malvern was sentenced on Monday 26th Jan after being found to have killed his wife by a jury in November 2014. Judge Juckes imposed a hospital order under...
View ArticleCCTV clues to sexual assault at Dudley shopping centre
CCTV images of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a teenager in a Dudley shopping centre have been released by police. The 18-year-old was in a public toilet block at Cornbow shopping centre in...
View ArticleMotorist suffers head injury after being hit with a rake in a road rage attack
Police are urgently seeking the whereabouts of two men who assaulted a motorist after a road rage incident in Dudley yesterday morning (28 January). Two vehicles pulled up on Meadow Road just after 9am...
View ArticleTwo bailed in Walsall drugs probe
A man and a woman have been bailed by police following a raid on a Leamore house earlier this week (27 January). Police seized drugs and over £30,000 cash during a search of a house on Harden Road...
View ArticleLying cabbie passed speeding points to pal…a man deported from UK three years...
A cabbie has narrowly escaped prison for trying to palm off speeding points onto another driver − a man police discovered was not in the country at the time having been deported three years earlier!...
View ArticleAppeal after man exposes himself to Dudley teenager
The 17-year-old was walking on The Broadway near to a local area known as ‘The Ruins’ on Wednesday 28 January just before 11am when a man described as in his late 20s walked towards her and exposed...
View ArticleBirmingham mum left “distraught” after child’s wheelchair stolen in burglary
A mother of two disabled children has been left “distraught” after callous thieves burgled her Birmingham home and stole her car, containing one of her child’s wheelchairs. The West Heath mum has not...
View ArticleTeenagers to write letters of apology to Nottingham Forest chairman after...
Two teenagers who were arrested in connection with criminal damage to a car parked at the iPro Stadium will write letters of apology to its owner. The 19-year-olds were interviewed after a Mercedes...
View ArticleGang Jailed For 58 Years For Cash In Transit Robberies
Four gang members have today been jailed for over 40 years at Preston Crown Court for conspiracy to rob cash in transit vans in the north of England, taking the total sentences for the six man gang to...
View ArticleTwo firearms officers and a dog handler served with gross misconduct notices
An Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation into the discharge of a police gun at a Nottinghamshire Police event is continuing. A seven-year-old girl was injured when a gun was...
View ArticleBrothers behind bars after police rumble car theft racket on “industrial scale”
Two Walsall brothers caught by West Midlands Police with parts cut from more than £500,000 worth of stolen cars have both been jailed for five years. Hamza and Eizam Riasat, both of Walstead Road in...
View Article91-year-old man found guilty of historic sexual assaults
A 91-year-old man has today been found guilty of historic sexual assaults which he committed over 60 years ago while he was a physical education teacher in the city. A jury at Birmingham Crown Court...
View ArticleFormer teacher and youth club leader convicted after WMP enquiry into...
Former teacher and youth club leader convicted after WMP enquiry into historic sex abuse. A former PE teacher from Birmingham has been found guilty of sexually abusing children at a school he taught at...
View ArticleTwo Walsall women arrested for Syria-related offences
Two women from Walsall have been arrested on suspicion of Syria related terrorism offences. One, aged 23, is suspected of preparing for acts of terrorism and the other, aged 33, of failing to disclose...
View ArticlePolice release CCTV after Birmingham bar brawl
Police are seeking the identity of a group of men thought to be involved in disorder in a Birmingham bar. A large scale fight broke out at the Mono Bar in the Arcadian Centre in the early hours of...
View ArticleAlum Rock shop manger counts the cost of handling stolen goods
The manager of an Alum Rock mobile phone shop which officers labelled the “epicentre of the local stolen property economy” has been ordered to pay over £2,000 and carry out over 60 hours of unpaid...
View ArticleCar demolishes garden wall after 100mph chase
A man has been taken to hospital after ploughing into a garden wall while fleeing police in Darlaston this morning (12 Feb). The 40-year-old from Wolverhampton failed to stop for officers in Victoria...
View ArticleMan arrested on suspicion of murder after body found in Coventry flat
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man’s body was found in a flat in Coventry Police attended an address in Langlodge Road, Holbrooks, just after 11.30pm on Thursday (12 February)...
View ArticleBirmingham career criminals caught by DNA
Two career criminals with over 100 previous convictions have been jailed after DNA left at the scene of burglaries proved their guilt. Paul Gallagher, 39 of Hayes Croft, Birmingham, was jailed for...
View ArticleStoke-on-Trent man arrested on suspicion of encouraging terrorism
A 29-year-old man from Stoke-on-Trent has been arrested on suspicion of encouraging terrorism and supporting a proscribed organisation. This relates to suspected online postings which reference the...
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