New names on police Most Wanted list

May 18 2007 By Tony Collins, Birmingham Mail

FOUR new suspects have been added to a controversial police Most Wanted list.

They include a woman suspected of robbing an elderly Parkinson's disease sufferer in Birmingham and a murder suspect from three years ago.

Images of the four have now been added to the force's Wanted website in the hope of reviving interest in the cases and jogging people's memories.

Three of the cases involved crimes in Birmingham, while the murder arose from a woman being set on fire in Wolverhampton.

A CCTV image has been released of a woman wanted in connection with a robbery in a betting shop in Birchfield Road, Perry Barr, on March 14.

The victim, a 70-year-old man with Parkinson's disease, was pushed to the floor by the woman who then stole his £110 winnings from his pockets and ran off.

Police also want to trace Thuy An Mao, aged 44, in connection with a murder of a businesswoman in Wolverhampton on May 9, 2004. She was doused in white spirit, causing extensive burns injuries. She was taken to hospital but died later.

Mao is also wanted in connection with a serious wounding on the same day, when he is alleged to have attacked a man with a machete.

Edward Raymond Maguire, 39, is being sought in connection with a robbery in Newtown last October when the 77-year-old victim, who is deaf, and partially blind in one eye, was pushed and robbed of cash.

Maguire is also wanted by the Metropolitan Police in London for an aggravated burglary where the householder was slashed across the face.

The fourth suspect is Tashak Dawins, 28, wanted in connection with a baseball bat attack on a 23-year-old man in South Woodgate in March this year.

He is also wanted for possession of a firearm and possession of drugs.

The new images can be seen on www.west-midlands.police.uk