The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
Police sealed off parts of the city centre after a young schoolboy was stabbed near Birmingham New Street Station on Wednesday. The teenage boy was stabbed in Stephenson Place around 4:30pm and police flooded the area and sealed off the busy location.
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…
A shocking hate-related sexual attack against a young woman took place in Birmingham’s Gay Village in the early hours of Sunday morning, police have confirmed. Four men were taken into police custody about an hour after the appalling sex attack took place in Hurst Street.
A teenager has been arrested after another teenager was stabbed in Sutton Coldfield yesterday, according to police reports. In a statement from West Midlands Police, a fight broke out on Park Road at around 5.30pm on Monday (2 January) and spilled onto Garrod Gardens and Fawdry Close in the B73 area code.
West Midlands Police are enforcing Section 60 powers in and around Birmingham city centre tonight following a stabbing spree in the city this last week. The public order act gives officers the power to stop and search people they suspect may be involved in violence involving weapons, without the need to have reasonable grounds.
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of footballer Cody Fisher who was stabbed to death at a nightclub in Birmingham on Boxing Day. The two suspects were taken into police custody on Wednesday (28 December).
West Midlands Police have charged a man suspected of fatally stabbing another man in Handsworth. Antonio Tibere was arrested on suspicion of the murder of 35-year-old Krystian Debski in Soho Road yesterday morning (22 December).
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of teenager Jack Lowe, who was stabbed to death in the West Midlands earlier this month. The suspect was arrested in Walsall yesterday morning (Saturday) over the killing of the 18-year-old, who died at the scene in parkland off Cook Street on Wednesday 7 December.
A murder investigation is underway in the West Midlands after a teenager was tragically stabbed to death on Wednesday night (7 December). Jack Lowe, 18, was killed near the Ikea store in Wednesbury just after 9pm.
A teenager who was on the run following the brutal murder of a taxi driver in Solihull has been arrested by police. Oliver Pugh was arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of 44-year-old Mohammed Istakhar on Tuesday 29 November.