A teenager who embarked on a month-long burglary spree, stealing car keys from inside people’s homes, has been locked up after officers tracked him down and thwarted further attacks
Leo Joe broke into homes across Birmingham and Solihull between 10 February and 9 March. He would tour the streets in the early hours of the morning looking for cars to take, including stealing a top-of-the-range Jaguar F-Pace, Volkswagens, Mercedes and Skodas from homes in Yardley, Castle Bromwich, Stechford, Small Heath and Sheldon. The 19-year-old […]
Members of an organised crime group who bought scores of blank firing handguns to convert into live weapons have been jailed for a total …
National Crime Agency investigators established that Perhys Neale, 31, bought around 45 legal blank firing Turkish Retay 84FS pistols from gun stores in the Midlands area, including shops in Birmingham and Tamworth. With original lethal purpose guns being illegal and relatively difficult to obtain, criminals wanting firearms often seek converted blank firing weapons. Each of […]
Members of an organised crime group who bought scores of blank firing handguns to convert into live weapons have been jailed for a total of almost 14 years
National Crime Agency investigators established that Perhys Neale, 31, bought around 45 legal blank firing Turkish Retay 84FS pistols from gun stores in the Midlands area, including shops in Birmingham and Tamworth. With original lethal purpose guns being illegal and relatively difficult to obtain, criminals wanting firearms often seek converted blank firing weapons. Each of […]
Three people have been found guilty of shooting and paralysing a 13-year-old boy
Following a six-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court, Zidann Edwards and Diago Anderson, both 20, and a 17-year-old – who the law says cannot be named because he is under 18 – were all charged with attempted murder.The 17-year-old was also charged with having a firearm with the intent to endanger life and having a […]
A domestic abuser who raped and abused a teenage girl on multiple occasions has been sentenced after detectives discovered a history of v…
Kyle Pugh subjected the now-18-year-old girl to four years of coercive control as well as physical and sexual assaults.Throughout the relationship, he was controlling towards her, dictating what she wore and refusing to let her wear makeup. He also regularly assaulted her by pulling her hair and biting her.The 19-year-old lashed out at the girl […]
A domestic abuser who raped and abused a teenage girl on multiple occasions has been sentenced after detectives discovered a history of violent outbursts
Kyle Pugh subjected the now-18-year-old girl to four years of coercive control as well as physical and sexual assaults.Throughout the relationship, he was controlling towards her, dictating what she wore and refusing to let her wear makeup. He also regularly assaulted her by pulling her hair and biting her.The 19-year-old lashed out at the girl […]
On November 19, 2016, a family was devastated by the death of their husband, father, and grandfather, Paul Maloney. Paul, of Kings Norton…
He died 14 months after being paralysed when a car intentionally crashed into his Ford CMax, seriously injuring his wife in the passenger seat. Paul died in the hospital as a result of pneumonia and sepsis.Before he died, Paul saw the man who had forever changed his life sentenced to 20 years and six months […]
On November 19, 2016, a family was devastated by the death of their husband, father, and grandfather, Paul Maloney. Paul, of Kings Norton, was only 52 years old
He died 14 months after being paralysed when a car intentionally crashed into his Ford CMax, seriously injuring his wife in the passenger seat. Paul died in the hospital as a result of pneumonia and sepsis.Before he died, Paul saw the man who had forever changed his life sentenced to 20 years and six months […]
On November 19, 2016, a family was devastated by the death of their husband, father, and grandfather, Paul Maloney. Paul, of Kings Norton, was only 52 years old
He died 14 months after being paralysed when a car intentionally crashed into his Ford CMax, seriously injuring his wife in the passenger seat. Paul died in the hospital as a result of pneumonia and sepsis.Before he died, Paul saw the man who had forever changed his life sentenced to 20 years and six months […]
A burglar who tied up and left a pensioner for dead before going on a £550 spending spree with his stolen cash card was sentenced today t…
Police discovered David Varlow’s body at his home on Manor Lane in Halesowen after his brother and neighbours expressed concern about his disappearance.The house had been ransacked, and the 78-year-old had been strangled with a telephone cable.Adris Mohammed’s DNA was found on the handle of a knife, the handle of a pair of scissors, and […]
A burglar who tied up and left a pensioner for dead before going on a £550 spending spree with his stolen cash card was sentenced today to at least 33 years in prison
Police discovered David Varlow’s body at his home on Manor Lane in Halesowen after his brother and neighbours expressed concern about his disappearance.The house had been ransacked, and the 78-year-old had been strangled with a telephone cable.Adris Mohammed’s DNA was found on the handle of a knife, the handle of a pair of scissors, and […]
A gun supplier from Birmingham who used a 3D printer and ammunition press to make viable weapons from parts ordered on the dark web has b…
Haroon Iqbal, 32, from Bramble Dell in Birmingham first requested internal parts of a Glock 17 from a seller, ordering it to arrive within a cover load of electronics and using a different identity. The order was sent but intercepted on its arrival in the UK on 22 January 2022, and found to include […]
A gun supplier from Birmingham who used a 3D printer and ammunition press to make viable weapons from parts ordered on the dark web has been jailed for 27 months
Haroon Iqbal, 32, from Bramble Dell in Birmingham first requested internal parts of a Glock 17 from a seller, ordering it to arrive within a cover load of electronics and using a different identity. The order was sent but intercepted on its arrival in the UK on 22 January 2022, and found to include […]
A mum and her partner have today been jailed for the death of three-year-old Kemarni Watson Darby, who was murdered at a flat in West Bro…
Nathaniel Pope, 32, was found guilty of Kemarni’s murder last month and sentenced to life in prison, he will have to serve a minimum of 24 years before being eligible for parole.Kemarni’s mother Alicia Watson was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of her son and was jailed for 11 years at Birmingham […]
A mum and her partner have today been jailed for the death of three-year-old Kemarni Watson Darby, who was murdered at a flat in West Bromwich in 2018
Nathaniel Pope, 32, was found guilty of Kemarni’s murder last month and sentenced to life in prison, he will have to serve a minimum of 24 years before being eligible for parole.Kemarni’s mother Alicia Watson was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of her son and was jailed for 11 years at Birmingham […]
A man who kept extremist manuals on how to make explosives and carry out attacks has been jailed for terrorism offences
Detectives found the daesh publications on a mobile phone belonging to 20-year-old Nuh Raheel, hidden under a mattress during a pre-planned police search of his address in Birmingham in October 2020. Appearing at Leicester Crown Court on Friday, Raheel was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in a youth offenders’ institution, with a one-year extended licence period. […]
A man who tried to smuggle heroin worth almost £1 million into the UK through Birmingham Airport has been jailed for nine years
National Crime Agency investigators questioned Mohammed Uzair Rashid, from Greater Manchester, after he arrived into the airport on a flight from Sialkot in Pakistan, via Dubai, in November 2021. CCTV cameras captured the moment Border Force officers singled the 35-year-old out for a search, during which they found almost 18 kilos of high-strength heroin […]
A Birmingham man has been jailed for possessing and sharing extremist material online
Musa Muhammad, aged 30 from Dunsink Road, Witton, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday to five years in prison after admitting to three offences of possessing and sending extremist videos at an earlier hearing in March. Muhammed is also subject to a Part 4 order for 15 years which is issued to […]
