A woman who carried out a ‘sickening and brutal’ attack on a pensioner has been jailed for more than seven years.

A woman who carried out a ‘sickening and brutal’ attack on a pensioner has been jailed for more than seven years. Samantha McDonnell broke into supported accommodation on Hasbury Road, Bartley Green on 4 March this year. She let herself into a pensioner’s flat and demanded money before attacking him, hitting him to the floor.
A man who attacked a neighbour with a knife in an unprovoked attack sparked by a parcel delivery has been jailed

Mohammed Latif confronted the man on his own doorstep after seeing him receive a package he was asked to take for someone else. For reasons which still remain unclear Latif – who had no previous involvement or interaction with the man – threatened to stab him. Latif lunged towards him with the knife but thankfully he […]
A London-based nurse currently serving an 18-year prison term for trafficking Nigerian women to Europe and forcing them into sex work has been ordered to hand over almost £184,000

Josephine Iyamu, 54, was the first British national to be convicted under the Modern Slavery Act for offences committed overseas, in a landmark prosecution led by the National Crime Agency in 2018. Iyamu was handed a confiscation order totalling £183,806.06 at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday 4 March. The confiscation amount took into account her […]
A London-based nurse currently serving an 18-year prison term for trafficking Nigerian women to Europe and forcing them into sex work has…

Josephine Iyamu, 54, was the first British national to be convicted under the Modern Slavery Act for offences committed overseas, in a landmark prosecution led by the National Crime Agency in 2018. Iyamu was handed a confiscation order totalling £183,806.06 at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday 4 March. The confiscation amount took into account her […]
A Nuneaton drug dealer has received a prison sentence of more than two years after pleading guilty to drug offences

Martin McGuire, 33, appeared at Birmingham Crown Court last week where he was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in prison for possession of crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply. McGuire was arrested in Princes Street, Nuneaton in June 2020 after plain clothed detectives from Nuneaton Proactive CID spotted a suspected drug deal. McGuire was searched […]
A man from Birmingham has been jailed for more than nine-and-a-half years following a National Crime Agency investigation into a suspecte…

21-year-old Khalid Khan was arrested by officers from the NCA’s Armed Operations Unit at a flat in the Rubery area on 13 November 2021. As officers entered the premises a jacket, packet of drugs and mobile phone were thrown from the window into the street outside. In a pocket of the jacket officers found a […]
A man from Birmingham has been jailed for more than nine-and-a-half years following a National Crime Agency investigation into a suspected organised crime group involved in the supply of firearms in the West Midlands.

21-year-old Khalid Khan was arrested by officers from the NCA’s Armed Operations Unit at a flat in the Rubery area on 13 November 2021. As officers entered the premises a jacket, packet of drugs and mobile phone were thrown from the window into the street outside. In a pocket of the jacket officers found a […]
A man has been charged with the murder of Kenneth Ford, from Birmingham

Gary O’Neil, 30, of Kenilworth Road, Handsworth has appeared before the city’s magistrate’s court today. Following his short appearance, he was remanded in custody and will reappear at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday. Police have said that It is unclear how Mr Ford 30, died, but he was found collapsed inside a property on Colebrook […]
A County Lines drugs dealer got a rude awakening when we raided the studio flat he’d been using to cook-up crack cocaine – (ID 521283)

Police identified Eugene Brannigan as the man behind the “Big Ali” line which advertised heroin and crack cocaine for sale from a drugs hotline. Our intelligence unit uncovered the line through detailed phone work and on 7 January this year we sprung an early morning surprise on Brannigan at the apartment in Lombard Street, Birmingham. […]
A County Lines drugs dealer got a rude awakening when we raided the studio flat he’d been using to cook-up crack cocaine

Police identified Eugene Brannigan as the man behind the “Big Ali” line which advertised heroin and crack cocaine for sale from a drugs hotline. Our intelligence unit uncovered the line through detailed phone work and on 7 January this year we sprung an early morning surprise on Brannigan at the apartment in Lombard Street, Birmingham.
A County Lines drugs dealer got a rude awakening when we raided the studio flat he’d been using to cook-up crack cocaine

Police identified Eugene Brannigan as the man behind the “Big Ali” line which advertised heroin and crack cocaine for sale from a drugs hotline. Our intelligence unit uncovered the line through detailed phone work and on 7 January this year we sprung an early morning surprise on Brannigan at the apartment in Lombard Street, Birmingham.
A man from Birmingham has been jailed for more than nine-and-a-half years following a National Crime Agency investigation into a suspecte…

21 -year-old Khalid Khan was arrested by officers from the NCA’s Armed Operations Unit at a flat in the Rubery area on 13 November 2021. As officers entered the premises a jacket, packet of drugs and mobile phone were thrown from the window into the street outside. In a pocket of the jacket officers […]
A man from Birmingham has been jailed for more than nine-and-a-half years following a National Crime Agency investigation into a suspected organised crime group involved in the supply of firearms in the West Midlands

21 -year-old Khalid Khan was arrested by officers from the NCA’s Armed Operations Unit at a flat in the Rubery area on 13 November 2021. As officers entered the premises a jacket, packet of drugs and mobile phone were thrown from the window into the street outside. In a pocket of the jacket officers […]
A man who is suspected of being a high-ranking member of a Vietnamese people smuggling network has been arrested

32-year-old Mai Van Nguyen, of Holloway Circus, Birmingham, was detained in an operation in the Woolton area of Liverpool on Tuesday morning (8 February). After being questioned by NCA investigators he was charged with the offences of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering and is now due to appear before Birmingham Crown Court […]
Two bouncers working at a nightclub in Wolverhampton have been jailed for rape

Hassan Bockerie and Iyoseph Derry were sentenced to almost 20 years in prison collectively after taking advantage of a woman in her 20s who had been enjoying a night out. The woman had been drinking at a works Christmas party in December, 2018, and visited a nightclub later that evening, where Bockerie and Derry were […]
A Birmingham man has been jailed for seven and a half years for four offences of disseminating extremist material between April 2019 and …

Rayan Saab, aged 22, from Bloomsbury Walk, Nechells, was convicted in November at Birmingham Crown Court after being arrested in January last year by detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands CTU. Several electronic devices were seized from his home and, following examination, extremist material was found on each device. The material contained information […]
A Birmingham man has been jailed for seven and a half years for four offences of disseminating extremist material between April 2019 and December 2020

Rayan Saab, aged 22, from Bloomsbury Walk, Nechells, was convicted in November at Birmingham Crown Court after being arrested in January last year by detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands CTU.
A former Staffordshire Police staff member has been jailed after pleading guilty to unlawfully accessing police computer systems to view photographs of crime scenes

Darren Collins, 56, of Stafford, a digital forensic specialist based at Police Headquarters in Stafford, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment at Birmingham Crown Court today.