• Cars crushed as police keep squeeze on overseas crime suspects

    West Midlands Police continues to put the squeeze on foreign criminals – by crushing cars seized from suspects during a nationwide clampdown.

    Operation Trivium − which ran from October 20-24 at a control centre in Birmingham − saw local officers join forces with colleagues from Romania, Lithuania and Poland on the look-out for Foreign National Offenders (FNOs). And last week two cars seized from crime suspects were crushed at a wrecker's yard. 
  • Birmingham men jailed for Syria-related terrorism offences

    Two men from Birmingham have been jailed after admitting they joined an extremist group fighting in Syria. They are the first in the West Midlands to be sentenced for this type of offence.

    Nahin Ahmed, of Farcroft Avenue, and Yusuf Sarwar, of Antrobus Road, both aged 22, were given sentences of 12 years and eight months each as well as extended licences of five years. They will serve two thirds in custody.

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