The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
A special performance amplifying Kathak, a south Asian classical dance, will be performed at the city’s Birmingham Hippodrome next month. Amina Khayyam Dance Company (AKDC) is returning to the venue’s Patrick Studio on 28 and 29 February with ‘ONE | BIRD’, a double-bill of high intensity Kathak.
A Wolverhampton thug who used horrific violence and coercive behaviour against his partner has been finally jailed for his string of crimes against the poor victim. Paul Woodward, 35, was known to police for previous offences and officers were alerted to his appalling crimes when paying a routine visit to his home in Shelley Road, Wolverhampton…
A domestic abuser from Birmingham who violently assaulted his partner, breaking her nose and hitting her with a crowbar so hard she suffered a bleed on the brain has been jailed. Alan McMahon subjected the woman to a two-week campaign of prolonged abuse where he hit her repeatedly with a crowbar and knife, and also threw…
West Midlands Police issued an apology tonight after the shocking murder of a mother and daughter in 2018. Raneem Oudeh, 22, and her mother Khaola Saleem were both brutally stabbed to death outside their home in Northdown Road, Solihull, on 27 August 2018 by Oudeh’s estranged husband who had followed them home.
The Tony award-winning Broadway musical The Color Purple arrives in Birmingham in an exciting new production. The highly anticipated show, based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, is now playing at The Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 17 September.
A disgraced West Midlands Police officer was sacked yesterday (14th Oct) for abusing his position of trust after engaging in a sexual relationship with a domestic abuse victim during the course of his duties. James Ankrett, 40, admitted corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers after forming an inappropriate relationship with the vulnerable victim…
A serving West Midlands Police officer was convicted today (14th Sept) of abusing his position after engaging in a sexual relationship with a domestic abuse victim during the course of his duties when the victim was in his care. PC James Ankrett, 40, admitted a charge of corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers…
West Midlands Police have arrested around 400 domestic abuse suspects in the last two weeks and are urging anyone suffering at home during the coronavirus lockdown to seek help. Police have confirmed today that officers have been dealing with an increase in reports of domestic violence in the region following Boris Johnson’s coronavirus lockdown.