19-year-old Mohammed Subhan was one of three teenagers who attacked him and made off from Kings Heath’s Highbury Park in the driver’s Vauxhall Corsa.<\/p>\n
Subhan was found in possession of a stun gun when he was arrested after crashing the car. He pleaded guilty and was jailed for 32 months.<\/p>\n
Police are still investigating several carjackings in south Birmingham.<\/p>\n
West Midlands Police Force said the victim was left with a bruise to an eye and a cut to his finger.<\/p>\n
The man spoke to a woman in the park and she called police.<\/p>\n
Two traffic officers spotted the Vauxhall Corsa on Kingswood Road around half an hour later, just over a mile away from the robbery, which happened at about 11:10 GMT on 17th<\/sup> March.<\/p>\n One of the teenagers and a female fled from the vehicle. Subhan reversed down the street with the car doors open before crashing into a vehicle travelling up the road.<\/p>\n He fled but was caught shortly after by a police officer.<\/p>\n He admitted robbery, possession of a stun gun, aggravated vehicle taking and use of vehicle without insurance and was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court last Monday.<\/p>\n The case against the 16-year-old boy and 14-year-old boy was dropped.<\/p>\n Det Con Tom Lyons, from Force CID, said,<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re grateful to the member of the public who helped the victim in this case.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a speedy response from police which enabled us to quickly arrest Subhan, who showed no remorse on his arrest.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are still investigating several offences of carjacking around the Moseley area earlier in the year and will do all we can to bring the offenders to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A carjacker who targeted a 90-year-old man as he returned to his car in a Birmingham park has been jailed. 19-year-old Mohammed Subhan was one of three teenagers who attacked him and made off from Kings Heath’s Highbury Park in the driver’s Vauxhall Corsa. Subhan was found in possession of a stun gun when he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":24550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}