A man has been charged with attempted murder after another man was seriously injured in a car fire at a petrol station in Dudley on Thursday, June 2
The victim, 20, is in critical condition in hospital after a fire broke out on the forecourt of a Texaco service station on Himley Road in Gornal Wood at around 7pm.Following an investigation, police arrested two men, both 30, on suspicion of attempted murder after they attended separate police stations in the West Midlands.On Saturday, […]
A man has been charged with attempted murder after another man was seriously injured in a car fire at a petrol station in Dudley on Thurs…
The victim, 20, is in critical condition in hospital after a fire broke out on the forecourt of a Texaco service station on Himley Road in Gornal Wood at around 7pm.Following an investigation, police arrested two men, both 30, on suspicion of attempted murder after they attended separate police stations in the West Midlands.On Saturday, […]
Police worked with her and another woman to secure his conviction after he raped a woman and blackmailed her over naked photos
Carlos Fletcher, who also attempted to rape a 14-year-old girl, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after the two women bravely came forward to reveal the crimes. They were able to help us build the case against Fletcher, 23, with the assistance of our specially trained officers. The first girl contacted us in […]
A man has been jailed for shooting his love rival with a BB gun before driving a car into a crowd – including a heavily pregnant woman – outside a pub in Stourbridge
Jack Richardson, aged 25, of West Street, Stourbridge shot a BB pistol at his ex-partner’s new boyfriend before driving a silver Volvo into him last summer. He tried to reverse the car into him a second time and instead rammed the vehicle into a crowd of people gathered outside the Gigmill Pub on 18 June. […]
A man has been jailed for shooting his love rival with a BB gun before driving a car into a crowd – including a heavily pregnant woman – …
Jack Richardson, aged 25, of West Street, Stourbridge shot a BB pistol at his ex-partner’s new boyfriend before driving a silver Volvo into him last summer. He tried to reverse the car into him a second time and instead rammed the vehicle into a crowd of people gathered outside the Gigmill Pub on 18 June. […]
A 19-year-old who carried out a brutal knife attack on a wounded teenager after chasing him into a shop in Smethwick town centre, has bee…
Derlano Samuels suffered multiple stab wounds, including one which left the tip of the knife embedded in his head. The shocking violence started when the 17-year-old was attacked by Cam’Ron Dunn just before 16.10 on 1 May last year in Cape Hill, when he was stabbed twice in the street. The injured teenager was […]
A 19-year-old who carried out a brutal knife attack on a wounded teenager after chasing him into a shop in Smethwick town centre, has been convicted of murder
Derlano Samuels suffered multiple stab wounds, including one which left the tip of the knife embedded in his head. The shocking violence started when the 17-year-old was attacked by Cam’Ron Dunn just before 16.10 on 1 May last year in Cape Hill, when he was stabbed twice in the street. The injured teenager was […]
A former West Midlands Police officer has been jailed for engaging in a relationship with a vulnerable woman during the course of his duties
James Ankrett admitted corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers after he formed an inappropriate relationship with the woman in July 2017. He was charged in 2019 following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) and was sentenced to five months in prison on Monday 18 October at Wolverhampton Crown Court. […]
Man jailed for brutal attack on mother and child
Aamer Araf repeatedly stabbed the 37-year-old woman with a kitchen knife until she lost consciousness in Mansion Drive in the early hours of 28 May, and as neighbours rushed to her aid, he took her seven-month-old son upstairs, swinging him by his legs and banging his head on the walls. When police arrived Araf […]
A man charged with causing death by dangerous driving has appeared at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court on Tuesday and has been remanded in custody pending his appearance at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 4 May
James Paul Davis, aged 34 from Walsall, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, causing death by driving while uninsured, failing to stop at the scene of a collision and failure to report a collision. Two-week-old Ciaran Leigh Morris died in hospital shortly after a collision between two cars resulted in a BMW […]
A killer who carried out a sustained attack on a father-of-two following a chance meeting in #Wolverhampton has been jailed for life
Simon Wilkins tortured 39-year-old Arturas Busma and left him with multiple injuries before handing himself into police.Mr Busma was discovered dead with a stab wound to the chest, burn marks and injuries consistent with being stamped on at Wilkin’s flat.He had been lured to the address in Tettenhall Road on 20 April last year after […]
An attacker who left a man with serious brain injuries after flooring him with a punch has been jailed
Thomas Matthews landed the blow outside the Phoenix pub in Oldbury on 24 October last year. The victim, aged in his 40s, fell to the ground after being punched in the face and suffered serious head injuries. Matthews fled following the attack in Martley Road but he was identified from CCTV and arrested […]
A homeless man who killed another homeless man after kicking him in the head, causing him irreparable brain damage has been jailed for si…
Ashley Pace, 35, of no fixed address, was sentenced today at Wolverhampton Crown Court after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of 38-year-old Jagdev Singh Lally at an earlier hearing. On 14 April 2020, Ashley Pace dragged Mr Lally, who was trying to sleep in a shopping precinct, from underneath the blankets that he was using […]
A homeless man who killed another homeless man after kicking him in the head, causing him irreparable brain damage has been jailed for six years
Ashley Pace, 35, of no fixed address, was sentenced today at Wolverhampton Crown Court after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of 38-year-old Jagdev Singh Lally at an earlier hearing. On 14 April 2020, Ashley Pace dragged Mr Lally, who was trying to sleep in a shopping precinct, from underneath the blankets that he was using […]
Man who knocked PC off motorbike is jailed for three years
You may remember seeing this video which we shared in November last year after one of our officers was rammed off his bike in Oldbury. A number of kind-hearted people came to the aid of PC Steve Lovering after Callum Fellows was spotted in a stolen Seat Leon which he deliberately drove into the PC’s […]
A drink-driver who ran over a firefighter, pinning him to another vehicle and breaking his legs, has been jailed after we found she was a…
Jill Carvell, aged 61, was in a Dacia Duster when she reversed at speed in Louise Street, Gornal, hitting the off-duty firefighter and trapping him between her car and a stationary vehicle. The 55-year-old firefighter, who was just weeks away from retiring, suffered breaks to both of his legs. He is making […]
A drink-driver who ran over a firefighter, pinning him to another vehicle and breaking his legs, has been jailed after we found she was almost three times the legal limit
Jill Carvell, aged 61, was in a Dacia Duster when she reversed at speed in Louise Street, Gornal, hitting the off-duty firefighter and trapping him between her car and a stationary vehicle. The 55-year-old firefighter, who was just weeks away from retiring, suffered breaks to both of his legs. He is making […]
A convicted killer has been recaptured by police after absconding from an open prison
Lewis Daniel Thornton, 29, who was convicted of manslaughter at Wolverhampton Crown Court in 2016, left HMP Sudbury on 5 December and failed to return along with two other men. A Derbyshire Police spokesperson said he had now been found in the West Midlands area. The two other inmates, Daniel Gerald Ferris and Rory Allen, […]
