Man killed in Coleshill lorry hijack
A MAN was stabbed to death and two others, including a 15-year-old teenager, were critically injured today after apparently attempting to hijack a lorry.
A trucker called Warwickshire Police at 6.20am claiming he was attacked during an attempted robbery on his curtain-sided lorry in Coleshill and had used a knife to defend himself.
Five minutes later a call was made to the ambulance service from the junction 7 of the northbound M6 at Great Barr – about ten miles away – reporting three people with stab wounds racing to hospital.
The call was made by one of the trio who was kept on the line by call handlers.
The men, who were bleeding heavily, turned up a short time later in a Subaru Impreza at Sandwell General Hospital.
Warwickshire Police said a 36-year-old man later died of his injuries. The two others remain in a critical condition.
The 41-year-old lorry driver, who is believed to be foreign, has now been arrested on suspicion of murder.
He was not seriously injured in the robbery.
Police and ambulance crews went to Junction 7 following the phone call. The exit slip road at junction 7 remained closed by police today for a detailed examination of the scene.
Police were also conducting inquiries in Station Road Industrial Estate, in Coleshill, which is understood to be where the lorry driver had been parked up.
A blue Subaru Impreza, dumped outside Sandwell Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department was also being examined by forsenics specialists.
