Birmingham Times
Birmingham Times
A 17-year-old boy from Rugby with extreme right views who offered to build weapons for individuals online has been found guilty of terrorism offences today (Friday). The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons due to his age, previously admitted nine counts of collecting terrorism information under section 58 of the Terrorism Act and […]
The 12-year-old, from Sparkbrook, was detained at the scene in Billesley Common Police recovered this firearm after our armed officers responded to calls of a gunman waving it around in a Birmingham park. Shockingly Officers later found the person in possession of the handgun was a boy aged 12. The gun was actually found to […]
Police are searching for three heartless burglars who attacked a 92-year-old woman in her home and tried prising an engagement ring off her finger. The men struck in Hockett Street, Cheylesmore, at 2.45pm on Wednesday (14 Oct) having crowbarred open the pensioner’s front door. They assaulted the defenceless woman and tried in vain to remove […]
A stalker who relentlessly hounded a woman – sending hundreds of threatening messages and even hacking into her home CCTV – has been jailed following our investigation. George Coughlan created 19 fake Instagram accounts, plus other bogus social media profiles, to bombard the woman with abuse from December last year. Chillingly, one of the messages […]
Police have charged a man with the murder of 31-year-old Gary Warner who died in hospital yesterday (31 October) after being stabbed in the chest. ***** aged 20 from ********* Sutton Coldfield was arrested last night and will appear before Birmingham Magistrates Court ’ tomorrow morning charged with Mr Warner’s murder. Has also been charged […]
A man has been arrested after a woman in her 70s was robbed in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter this morning (29 April). Members of the public helped detain the suspect after the woman’s bag was snatched at the junction of Warstone Lane and Vyse Lane. It happened at just after 11.20am and passers-by intervened before officers […]
A Birmingham man who was wanted for almost five years has been put back behind bars. Santosh White had been wanted on recall to prison since July 2019 when the 34-year-old was arrested on Wednesday (10 Apr) at an address in Broad Lane, Bloxwich. White, 34, was charged with being unlawfully at large and appeared […]
A Birmingham man who made plans to rape the children of a woman he was messaging online has been jailed for 15 years. Christopher Brand, of Birmingham, was sentenced at the city’s Crown Court on Tuesday 23 January for the offences, following trial at the same court in December. In June last year, the 62-year-old […]
A Birmingham man who died from stab wounds on Kings Heath High Street has been named as Ronique Thomas. The 33-year-old was stabbed near the junction of Queensbridge Road just before 2.30am on Wednesday (26 April) and died at the scene. A 17-year-old boy arrested on Friday has now been charged with murder, robbery and […]
