‘Culture Clash’ failing abused Asian children
Asian children suffering in silence, say NSPCCASIAN children's needs are being sidelined as cultural misunderstandings and 'political correctness' hinder the authorities from protecting them from the effects of domestic violence, a new NSPCC report has warned.
The children’s charity...
Brit loses clemency plea
Life imprisonment for Krishna Maharaj A BRITON who has always maintained his innocence over a double murder will spend the rest of his life in jail after his plea for clemency was denied by a US judge.
Former millionaire...
Building collapse man named
Police identify man as 47-year-old Lakhvir SinghA MAN who died following the collapse of the roof of a building in West Bromwich High Street has been named by police.
Emergency services were unable to save 46-year-old Lakhvir Singh from...
Concern for missing teenager
Police probe Birmingham linksA COVENTRY teenager who has not been seen since April may be in Birmingham, police have said.
Gulam Hussain, from Mill Close, Wood End in Coventry, was last seen on the morning of 12 April.
Police say...
Prison for ‘Casino’ money launderers
Four men jailed for total of 22 yearsFOUR men from the West Midlands who exploited the gaming industry to launder vast amounts of money have been jailed.
Harvinder Singh Batth, 33, Sukhjinder Singh Shergill, 33, Suckjit Singh Birring, 36,...
British Muslims welcome visa forgery conviction
Egyptian trio convicted for forging Hajj visasA BRITISH Muslim group has welcomed the conviction of three Egyptian men who were sentenced for forging Hajj visas.
The Association of British Hujjaj (ABH), a charity based in Birmingham, said the conviction...
IVF couple hit out at ‘untrue’ reports
‘We never rejected our girls’, say coupleTHE FAMILY of a Midlands couple who were accused in a newspaper story of dumping their newborn twin girls at a Birmingham hospital because they were not boys have hit out at the...
Guantanamo man pleads to PM
‘I feel betrayed by Britain’, says prisonerA BRITISH resident who is facing the death penalty in Guantanamo Bay has written a letter to Prime Minster Gordon Brown urging him for help.
Binyam Mohamed, the only Briton in the camp, has...
Amar Aslam’s Family: ‘We’re Heartbroken’
Four charged with teenagers’ murderTHE FAMILY of Amar Aslam paid tribute to the murdered teenager hours after four people appeared in court charged with his murder.
Seventeen-year-old Amar was savagely beaten and left for dead in Crow Nest Park...
Nisha Patel Nasri: Cheating Husband Guilty
We can never forgive him, says Nisha’s brotherTHE BROTHER of murdered special constable Nisha Patel Nasri has said the family would never be able to forgive her killer husband.
Fadi Nasri, 34, had Nisha killed so he could cash...
