The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
We have news coming in this evening of 13 arrests being made outside an immigration centre in Solihull. According to reports from activists, the arrests were made outside Home Office reporting centre Sandford House in Homer Road just after 9.00pm, where campaigners have been protesting throughout the day against a government operation launched today (Monday…
Two men have been convicted after killing a father of two in Ladywood in October 2022. Ali Salih Abdalaah, aged 36, was killed after being beaten to death in a hallway in Brecon Tower, Guild Close.
West Midlands Police have charged two men with burglary after an address was broken into in Coventry. Officers were called to Browns Lane, Allesley just after 1.50am yesterday (26 April).
Two people have been arrested during West Midlands Police’s Project Guardian patrols in Washwood Heath, Birmingham. Officers out on patrol this afternoon arrested two people, recovering suspected class A drugs and a meat cleaver, the force revealed.
A drink-driver has been jailed for killing his passenger in a crash, after driving the wrong way on a motorway into oncoming traffic. Thomas O’Brien-Wood had “failed to stop for West Midlands Police officers on the A446 prior to joining the M42 and was driving dangerously”, Warwickshire Police confirmed.
A man has been found guilty of manslaughter after a father-of-three was fatally stabbed in Hockley last year. Hazim Al-Bajouri, 43, died after being stabbed in the chest by Cyle Crowley on 12 June.
Three men have been charged with offences including kidnap and robbery after police carried out warrants in Walsall and Smethwick by West Midlands Police. Mohammed Jamil, 39, Idris Ahmed, 26 and Mohammed Saadh, 23, have all been charged with kidnap, false imprisonment, assault and robbery.
Police have charged two teenagers with wounding and robbery after two other teenagers were attacked in Solihull. The attacks took place in September and December 2023, as well as last month, say police.
A Birmingham man who had planned to rape the children of a woman he was messaging online has been jailed for 15 years. Christopher Brand was sentenced at the city’s Crown Court on Tuesday 23 January for the offences, following trial at the same court in December.
West Midlands Police have charged two men with serious assault and aggravated burglary following police warrants that carried out in Birmingham earlier this week. Javid Ahmadzai, 41, and Hajam Ahmadzai, 24, were both charged with wounding and aggravated burglary following an incident in Serpentine Road, Perry Barr on 28 January. “Following their court hearing at…