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Burgled during wife’s funeral

CALLOUS burglars ransacked the home of a Birmingham man as he attended the funeral of his wife.Read

Burgled during wife’s funeral

CALLOUS burglars ransacked the home of a Great Barr man as he attended the funeral of his wife.Read

David Weaver

Help bring David Weaver's killers to justice says West Midlands Police

David Weaver, aged 44, suffered major head injuries in the attack in Marsh Hill, Stockland Green, last November.Read

Police want to trace yobs who threw water at cleaner in New Street station

POLICE want to speak to these men after a Birmigham railway station cleaner had his bucket of water thrown over him.Read

TWO people were arrested in Birmingham today as immigration officers and police swooped on the homes of people suspected of taking part in sham marriages.

They were held in Hockley and Handsworth during an operation which targeted addresses across the West Midlands.Read

Police looking for men seen near taxi driver murder scene

MURDER squad detectives hunting the killer of a Birmingham taxi driver have appealed for help to trace two men in a car seen close to the murder scene.Read

POLICE today urged witnesses to help bring to justice the killer of a peacemaker who died more than five months after being attacked trying to break up a brawl.

David Weaver, aged 44, suffered major head injuries in the attack in Marsh Hill, Stockland Green, last November.Read

Police looking for men seen near taxi driver murder scene

MURDER squad detectives hunting the killer of a Birmingham taxi driver have appealed for help to trace two men in a car seen close to the murder scene.Read

CCTV catches Stephon Davidson's killer in action

THIS was the moment a killer gunman hung from the window of a car weaving through traffic before opening fire and killing a Birmingham teenager.Read

The Function Suite

Two men shot at packed party in Balsall Heath

TWO men were today recovering in hospital after being gunned down in a double shooting at a packed private party in Birmingham.Read

TWO men were today under guard in hospital after being gunned down in a double shooting at a packed private party in Birmingham.

Police said the pair, aged 22 and 30, were inside The Function Suite, in Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, in the early hours of yesterday when they were shot. The gunman is thought to have opened fire as scores of people were celebrating a private event, thought to be a birthday party.Read

TWO men were today under guard in hospital after being gunned down in a double shooting at a packed private party in Birmingham.

Police said the pair, aged 22 and 30, were inside The Function Suite, in Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, in the early hours of yesterday when they were shot. The gunman is thought to have opened fire as scores of people were celebrating a private event, thought to be a birthday party.Read

Terminally-ill Acocks Green man, 85, conned into paying £12,000 for bogus roof repairs

CONMEN who fleeced a terminally-ill Birmingham man out of £12,000 of his life savings for a bogus roof repair were today branded “inhuman” by his angry daughter.Read

Man who burgled blind pensioner three weeks before his death guilty of planning 35 raids

A MAN has admitted burgling a blind pensioner who died three weeks after his Birmingham home had been targeted in a distraction-type break-in.Read

Signs were missed that killer was unstable, says Mick Swindells' widow

THE widow of hero detective Michael Swindells said mental health workers should have spotted that his killer was not stable in the weeks before he stabbed her husband.Read

Plea for help in tracing missing five-year-old Birmingham girl

POLICE today issued an urgent appeal for help in tracing a missing Birmingham child they fear may have been taken out of the country.Read

Mohammed Arshad

Mohammed Arshad murder: Charge on taxi death ‘confession’

A MAN has been charged with perverting the course of justice after police hunting the killer of taxi driver Mohammed Arshad received a call from someone confessing to be the murderer.Read

Motorbike pair hunted over armed raid on Shard End supermarket

TWO armed robbers held up a cash delivery at a Birmingham supermarket.Read

Bookie raider made lighter fuel threat to punter

A CALLOUS robber threatened to douse a gambler with lighter fuel during a hold-up at a Birmingham bookies.Read

Motorbike pair hunted over armed raid on Birmingham supermarket

TWO armed robbers held up a cash delivery at a Birmingham supermarket.Read