Award honour for City Chief Legal Officer
BIRMINGHAM City Council’s chief legal officer has been recognised in the annual UK’s Asian Power 100 awards.
Mirza Ahmad was honoured for his contribution to public service at a ceremony in London and was the only representative from local...
In memory of Hassan
THE MEMORY of a City youngster who died a day before his third birthday will be kept alive at the Sure Start centre which he attended after they named a new room in his memory.
Young Hassan Ali never...
Corrupt lawyer jailed
A LONDON lawyer who helped criminals create false alibis has been jailed for fourteen and a half years.
32-year-old Naveen Sagar pleaded guilty to two counts of perverting the course of justice and two counts of fraud.
Sagar was...
Suspended sentence for ‘Lyrical terrorist’
A FORMER Heathrow Airport worker who became the first female to be convicted under new terrorism legislation has been spared jail.
23-year-old Samina Malik was convicted at the Old Bailey last month after police found a “library” of material useful...
Axe attackers guilty
FIVE Derby men who attacked a couple with an axe as they walked to a takeaway have been jailed.
Shaban Yasin, 21, Imran Hussain, 19, Kamran Yasin, 18, Minjanur Masan, 29, and Naveed Khaliq, 21, each admitted one charge...
Student guilty of love rivals’ murder
A BIRMINGHAM Dentistry student who murdered her lover’s pregnant wife will spend the next 14 years of her life behind bars after being found guilty.
23-year-old Harmohinder Kaur Sanghera, from Solihull, Birmingham, murdered 17-year-old Sana Ali in a “sustained and ferocious”...
Birmingham support for Bangladesh cyclone victims
A BIRMINGHAM restaurant has teamed up with national charity Oxfam too help raise funds for the victims of Cyclone Sidr which ripped through Bangladesh.
City eaterie Simla has joined forced with the Oxfam Bangladesh Cyclone Appeal to help raise...
Suspended sentences for kidnap mother and uncle
THE MOTHER and uncle of a 16-year-old girl kidnapped by the pair after she ran away from home have been given suspended sentences.
The pair, who cannot be named, kidnapped the teenager after she ran away from home following...
Ofcom rejects ‘Dispatches’ police complaints
MEDIA watchdog Ofcom has accused West Midlands Police of giving "legitimacy to people preaching a message of hate" after it rejected its complaint over a Channel 4 Dispatches undercover programme about extremism in a Birmingham mosque.
The Dispatches programme...
Pakistan to extradite terror accused
A BRITISH MUSLIM suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to blow up airlines over the Atlantic is expected to be deported to the UK.
Birmingham man Rashid Rauf was arrested in August 2006 in Pakistan in connection with an...
