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Iftikhar Ali, aged 43 and from Solihull, Azhar Mahmood, 37, and Waheed Mohammed, 33, both from Birmingham, stand trial at Birmingham Crown Court A West Midlands Police officer allegedly 'tipped off' a child rape suspect who had fled the country, a court has heard. Sergeant Iftikhar Ali has been accused of reading crime reports and warning the male how serious the case was. The suspect subsequently skipped bail and has never returned to face trial, a jury was told. Ali, aged 43, stands trial at Birmingham Crown Court where he denies perverting the course of justice as well as multiple...

The devout imam was following in the footsteps of Muhammad, whose favorite wife was six when he married her. Respect it! MUSLIM PREACHER WHO RUNS BRITAIN’S BIGGEST NETWORK OF SHARIA COURTS QUIZZED ON SUSPICION OF CHILD RAPE SHEIKH FAIZ-UL-AQTAB SIDDIQI IS BEING INVESTIGATED OVER CLAIMS HE RAPED TWO DUTCH GIRLS IN THE 1980S AND 1990S BY WEST MIDLANDS POLICE By John Shammas, The Sun, 21st October 2018: A MUSLIM cleric who runs the UK’s biggest sharia courts network is being quizzed by cops over allegations of historic child rape. Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, 51, is alleged to have raped two Dutch...

Police said an army bomb disposal team had been sent to Birmingham's Lee Bank area as a "precautionary measure" as a result of one of the arrests. Two men, aged 32 and 37, were arrested in the Stoke area of Staffordshire. The other three men, aged 18, 24 and 28, were arrested in Birmingham. Police said they were all held on suspicion of commissioning, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism.

A bombshell police report has revealed 75 per cent of known on-street child sex groomers in the West Midlands are Asian – with 82 per cent of victims, aged 14 to 16, being white. And a Birmingham Mail investigation has discovered how police, councils and social services have been failing vulnerable victims in a new abuse scandal which follows those identified in Rotherham, Rochdale and Derbyshire. The shocking statistics are contained in a confidential report from West Midlands Police. Another report identified 111 youngsters at risk of child sexual exploitation in Birmingham last year, with the youngest aged just 11,...

SNIPPET: "Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg is among four people who have been arrested on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offences, police have said. Mr Begg, 45, who was held by the US authorities for almost three years, was arrested earlier with two other men and a woman in the West Midlands. He was detained on suspicion of attending a terrorist training camp and facilitating terrorism overseas." SNIPPET: "Mr Begg was arrested in Hall Green in Birmingham. The other people arrested - a 36-year-old man from Shirley, a 44-year-old woman and her son, 20, both from Sparkhill - are being...

This was the moment traffic wardens swooped outside a church and slapped parking tickets on cars while their owners were at morning mass. Members of the congregation—some of them in wheelchairs—could be seen arguing with the unrepentant wardens for 30 minutes. But the council workers, who had even targeted cars with blue disabled badges, which were allowed to park, refused to back down. The bizarre scene unfolded on Sunday morning outside Our Lady and St. Hubert church in Oldbury, West Midlands. …

Police have come under fire for asking homeowners whether they were gay or bisexual—in a Neighborhood Watch survey. The questionnaire by West Midlands Police asked residents in Birmingham questions about their sexual orientation so they could help officers “detect crime and antisocial behavior.” The force claim that by asking whether people were straight, gay or bisexual it would help them decide where certain information about police initiatives should be best sent. But residents and politicians in the city have accused the police of being too politically correct. …

"Seven Men Arrested Under Terror Act The arrests followed a routine stop of a vehicle by police on the M1 motorway in South Yorkshire on June 30." SNIPPET: ""Firearms, offensive weapons and other material were later found hidden inside, prompting police to take action to trace and arrest the driver, passenger and others suspected of being involved," he said. Police said three men aged 23, 26 and 27 from Sparkhill, Birmingham, were arrested on Tuesday morning. Three more suspects, a 22-year-old from Alum Rock, Birmingham, a 24-year-old from the Moseley area of the city, and a 22-year-old from Smethwick, West...

Four men from Birmingham have been charged with terrorism offences and will appear in a London court. Khobaib Hussain, Ishaaq Hussain and Shahid Kasam Khan, all 19, and Naweed Mahmood Ali, 24, were last night charged with fundraising for terrorist purposes and of travelling to Pakistan for terrorist training. They were arrested at their homes in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham by officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit on Tuesday.

An elderly couple have been arrested on suspicion of killing their daughter who died after two decades battling an extreme form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Ken and Marion Hancox, who are both in ill health, have spent eight months under suspicion of the manslaughter of their housebound daughter, Samantha, a former law student. The 40-year-old developed a crippling phobia of germs which forced her to shower up to 20 hours a day and left her incapable of cooking for herself. She developed the disorder as a student and had needed constant care from her parents ever since. By the time...