The Latest Breaking News from Birmingham Crown Court

Baby's tragic abuse exposed after 'binge-drinking' mum walks away from pram outside ASDA

Julija Priadina, 32, left her child unattended for more than a minute after going to Asda, where security staff noticed that the mum had been swigging from a bottle of wine

Daily Mirror · Jul 24, 2022

Merseyside's most devious fraudsters, con artists and scammers

The list includes Netflix fraudsters, a cancer con woman and a tax cheat

Liverpool Echo · Jun 26, 2022

Lego loving £1.3m fraudster spent thousands on trips to Disneyland

Lee Hickinbottom worked with his former partner Tabatha Knott to steal £1.3m of taxpayers cash

Liverpool Echo · May 23, 2022

Kemarni Watson Darby murder: Toddler holds mother’s hand in McDonald’s hours before he’s beaten to death

Drug dealer Nathaniel Pope, 32, found unanimously guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s son

The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2022

Kemarni Watson Darby: Chilling 999 call mum made after boyfriend murdered son in flat

West Midlands Police have released audio footage from Alicia Watson's 999 call after she found son Kemarni Watson Darby, three, "lifeless" in her flat in West Bromwich, after he was attack by her ex-boyfriend Nathaniel Pope

Daily Mirror · Apr 12, 2022

Kemarni Watson Darby: Man convicted of murdering partner’s son, 3, after weeks of ‘horrendous cruelty’

Youngster died after being found lifeless at home in West Bromwich in June 2018

The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2022

Police seize Ferrari from fraudster - sparking £200k court case

'The conduct of the Defendant, by its officers... constituted misconduct in public office and wrongful interference with the claimant's property by means of trespass to goods'

Wales Online · Apr 3, 2022

Teenager convicted of killing boy stabbed in Birmingham

Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court deliberated over three days before acquitting four other defendants of murdering 14-year-old Dea-John Reid.

The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2022

Drunk Jet2 passenger sick down himself and 'couldn't open his bag' jailed

Ali Ozdemir was too intoxicated to open his bag for his passport on the Jet2 flight from Turkey in October last year.

Daily Record · Mar 30, 2022

Jet2 passenger who got so drunk he vomited on himself on plane is jailed

Andrew Wallace, prosecuting at Birmingham Crown Court, said police had been called to Birmingham airport on October 19 last year following a report of an intoxicated passenger on a Jet2 plane from Turkey

Daily Mirror · Mar 29, 2022