Birmingham City Council’s Trading Standards officers revealed a haul of counterfeit branded goods, before destroying the fake designer clothes this week. The haul – which included fake goods from well-known brands such as Nike, Versace and Gucci, worth around £10,000 – was forfeited by a Birmingham-based trader, following an investigation by the council’s Trading Standards […]
Police released shocking video footage showing thugs savagely assaulting a defenceless man as he cowered on the floor in Birmingham city centre yesterday (28 June). The 40-year-old man was set upon in Corporation Street at around 6pm and robbed of his wallet and keys. He was left with nasty head injuries and needed hospital treatment to a badly bruised eye and […]
A burglar who admitted stealing meat from the freezer of a Birmingham home claiming it was because he was hungry, has been jailed for a year and a half for similar offences. Dishon Burgess, of no fixed address, was traced on CCTV after burgling a house on Crantock Road on Tuesday 31 March. Of all […]
Police are appealing for information following a carjacking in Highbury Park, just off Shutlock Lane in #Moseley, on Monday 22 June. At around 4.15pm a woman was returning to her black Land Rover Discovery Sport when she was approached by two Asian men. https://youtu.be/w_JLyifz-zo One of the men pushed her to the ground and grabbed her […]
Police are appealing for information after a woman was assaulted on Reservoir Road in Edgbaston on Friday 29 May. At around 9.15pm, the 29-year-old was sitting on a bench at Edgbaston reservoir with a friend when she was approached by a man who repeatedly kicked and punched her. Members of the public intervened and the […]
Police are appealing for information following a serious collision in Birmingham on Wednesday 17 June which has left a man with potentially life-changing injuries. Officers were called to the junction of Coventry Road and Forest Road, at about 11pm, where an 18-year-old motorcyclist was found with a head injury. The man was taken to hospital […]
Police are again warning anyone planning to attend an illegal rave this weekend that they risk being arrested and prosecuted. Police intelligence unit has received information suggesting an unlicensed music event may pop up in the Black Country tomorrow evening (27 June). Recent raves in Manchester have attracted thousands of people – in clear breach […]
Police have charged a man with murder following a fatal stabbing in Great Barr, Birmingham on Sunday evening (21 June). Reece Adamson, aged 30, was tragically found with fatal injuries to his neck after officers were called to reports of a disorder just after 9pm in Cardington Avenue. Shaun Bent, from Cardington Avenue, was charged […]
Three Birmingham men have been jailed for kidnapping a college student and forcing him to rob his own family home. Brothers Ibrahim and Hassan Rauf captured the 18-year-old student on 8 May last year after Ibrahim lured him into a shop in Balsall Heath on the pretence of feeling faint and needing help. Hassan (22) […]
