Solihull news

• Woman made to pay £46k crime debt – 10 years after money laundering conviction!

  22-03-2015 00:00
  A woman who helped hide criminal cash accrued by her daughter’s corrupt boyfriend has been ordered to pay £46,000 back into the public purse…10 years after being convicted for money laundering.
  
  Sharon Millard was jailed for six months in 2005 after a West Midlands Police investigation showed she’d processed £97,537 in ‘dirty money’ through her bank accounts. 
  
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• Teenager charged over Erdington bus fire

  22-03-2015 00:00
  A Birmingham teenager has been charged with arson in connection with a fire that gutted the top deck of a bus in the city earlier this week.
  
  The 15-year-old, from Erdington, was arrested on Thursday night (19 March) after attending a police station following appeals on social media to identify the suspect.
  
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• Sly thief pockets five year city ban

  22-03-2015 00:00
  A prolific purse thief with 77 convictions to her name has been given a criminal behaviour order (CBO) banning her from Birmingham city centre for five years.
  
  Margaret Johnson, of no fixed address, targeted a total of four unsuspecting shoppers within minutes in January this year.
  
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• Fine-dodging taxi driver jailed

  22-03-2015 00:00
  A taxi driver has been jailed for six months after twice trying to dodge fines and penalty points for speeding in Birmingham.
  
  Mohammed Qayum, a Hackney Carriage driver licensed in Birmingham, was clocked on the M42 doing 60mph in a 50mph zone in March 2012. His Peugeot taxi activated a temporary speed camera between junctions six and seven on the northbound carriageway and a prosecution form was sent to his Aston home.
  
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• Fifth man charged with Coventry nightclub murder

  22-03-2015 00:00
  A Birmingham man was last night (Saturday 21 March) charged with the murder of Coventry clubber Daniel Kirkwood.
  
  Unemployed Ezra Scott, of Hawksyard Road in Erdington, will appear before Coventry Magistrates Court on Monday accused of murder and three counts of wounding.
  
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• CCTV released after Walsall shopkeeper burgled

  22-03-2015 00:00
  CCTV images of a group of men have been released after a Walsall newsagent was burgled.
  
  It is believed that the group distracted the shopkeeper at L S Bains in Lord Street while others sneaked into the living quarters and stole cash.
  
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