Police updates
The latest news and appeals from all the Midland police forces.
The latest news and appeals from all the Midland police forces.
A man has lost his sight in one eye after he was stabbed by a man begging for cash in Spices restaurant on Soho Road in Birmingham.
It happened on the evening of Thursday 5 December.
The victim gave the beggar a cigarette but when he refused to give the beggar cash, he was hit in the eye.
Police have now released this image of a man they want to speak to.
He's described as mixed race, and 5'6" tall. He was wearing a light grey hooded top with white writing.
A promising teenage athlete has been jailed for four years following a string of gunpoint robberies in a Birmingham park in June last year.
West Midlands Police have released footage of the high speed pursuit of a Wolverhampton gang member who stole almost £40,000 in cigarettes.
A robber from Birmingham who took a picture of his stairs carpeted with all the cash he had stolen has been jailed for eight years.