
A teenager arrested on suspicion of murdering a 12-year-old boy in Birmingham is also being held in connection with an assault on an elderly woman in the same area of the city on Sunday, police have said.
In a press conference on Wednesday, West Midlands Police Chief Superintendent Richard North, the policing commander for Birmingham, said the 14-year-old suspect accused of stabbing the boy in the stomach near Scribers Lane in Hall Green shortly after 3pm on Tuesday is also being held in connection with an assault on a woman aged in her 80s on Sunday afternoon, which was reported to police.