The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
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.
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).
Police have sealed off several streets in the Aston area of Birmingham this evening after a shocking mass fight which ended with four men being stabbed and hospitalised. The mass brawl took place in Witton Road around 5pm on Friday (18 November).
Ruthless killer Zephaniah McLeod has been sentenced for murdering a young man and injuring seven others in a violent stabbing rampage in Birmingham last year. In September 2020, a series of stabbings over the course of a few hours in Birmingham city centre left seven people seriously injured and a young man dead, leaving the city shocked and…
A mob of teenagers were involved in a fight that resulted in four young men being stabbed inside Henry Barber Park in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham on Saturday. The victims were stabbed after a large scale public disorder broke out around 6pm inside the park and the fight spilled out onto the adjacent…
A man charged with the murder and accused of attempted murder has appeared in court today following a stabbing rampage which left one man dead and several critically injured on Sunday. Zephaniah McLeod, aged 27 of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, has appeared before Birmingham Magistrates this morning (September 9) in connection with the stabbings in…
A man has been charged with the murder of Jacob Billington, who was one of eight people stabbed in Birmingham city centre in the early hours of Sunday. Zephaniah McLeod, 27, of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, Birmingham, is also accused of the attempted murder of the seven other victims of the knife attacks.
Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder over a series of stabbings in Birmingham yesterday. The suspect was detained at an address in Selly Oak at around 4am this morning after West Midlands Police detectives worked through the night in a bid to catch the man responsible.
Birmingham businessman Savvas Sfrantzis, owner of Mykonos Bar and Grill, describes the knifeman’s vicious attacks against random people outside his eatery in Hurst Street in the city centre’s Southside district. Eight people were stabbed by a man between 12.30am and 2.30am on Sunday 6 September in central Birmingham. One of the victims died and two were…