Robbers jailed for 14 years after snatching cashbox from supermarket

A PAIR of bungling Birmingham robbers have been jailed for 14 years after being found red-handed with a cashbox they had stolen just 30 minutes earlier.

Theodore Mullings-Fairweather and William Mooney were found hiding out on a Ladywood industrial estate less than an hour after they had snatched the cashbox from a security guard outside a Tesco Express store in Oldbury.

During the robbery outside the supermarket in Bristnall Hall Road last July, the security guard was rugby-tackled by Mullings-Fairweather who grabbed the box and made off in a getaway car.

Enquiries led police to the Ladywood industrial park where Mullings-Fairweather, 25, and 26-year-old Mooney were seen standing next to a Peugeot.

As the police helicopter circled overhead the pair sped off, pursued by a traffic car, before crashing and abandoning the car to roll dangerously down a road.

Only the swift actions of an officer, who jumped behind the wheel and pulled on the handbrake, stopped it causing more damage or injury.

Police said the pair fled the scene, but left behind plenty of evidence linking them to the robbery.

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Chelum Sharif memorial for Sufi Muhammed Abdullah Khan - as it happened

Thousands of mourners are expected at a gathering of remembrance for Sufi Muhammed Abdullah Khan in Birmingham on Saturday.

Mr Khan was the original founder of the Central Jamia Masjid Ghamkol Sharif mosque, in Small Heath in 1996. Thousands of people attended his funeral on February 14th.

Saturday's memorial gathering is known as "Chelum Sharif" which takes place approximately 40 days after burial. Many spiritual leaders and religious scholars from across the UK will address the gathering, the main part of which will run from 5pm until 8pm.

We'll be carry live updates from the event from about 6.30pm
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Welcome to our coverage of the Chelum Sharif memorial for Sufi Muhammed Abdullah Khan.

Around 5,000 people are expected to attended today's special remembrance event to pay their final respects to a Birmingham mosque founder and “pillar of the community”

The gathering, referred to as the “Chelum Sharif”, is taking place at Birmingham’s Central Jamia Masjid Ghamkol Mr Khan was the original founder of the mosque, located on Poets Corner, Small Heath.

The 92-year-old died last month and the thousands of people who are due to attend this evening's service will hear tributes about his life and work before a final prayer is due at 8pm.
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Spiritual leaders and religious scholars from across the UK are expected to attend to address the gathering and pay tributes to Sufi Sahib.

It started at 5pm and runs until 8pm where a final prayer will be performed.

The service will also include tributes about the life and work of Sufi Sahib, which is due to start at 6.45pm

Around 15,000 mourners, including Muslim leaders from across the country, were in Birmingham last month to pay their final respects to the mosque founder for his funeral on February 14.
6:33 pm

The streets around Central Jamia Mosque are completely filled with parked cars as thousands of people arrive at the Poets Corner building to pay their respects to Sufi Sahib in time for the final prayer.
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Today's gathering marks the end of the 40-day period of mourning and will be marked on an annual basis in tribute to Sufi Sahib.

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Man stabbed near Villa Park, police close roads

 Pharmacy on the corner of Frederick Street and Bevington Road, where the man is believed to have been attacked

DETECTIVES have launched an investigation into a knife attack after a man was found collapsed with stab wounds in Aston on Saturday afternoon

Emergency services were called to Upper Thomas Street shortly before 12.30pm after a man in his 20s was found with serious injuries.

The man has been taken to hospital where his condition is believed to be serious but stable.

Officers think the man was attacked outside a pharmacy on Bevington Road a short time earlier.
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Antonio Boporan jailing: Angry dad of tragic Cerys Edwards says: 'He'll never learn his lesson'

The father of Cerys Edwards has revealed she nearly died recently because of disabilities caused by speeding driver Antonio Boparan – who is now starting his second jail sentence.

Gareth Edwards spoke to the Mail as the man who left his daughter brain damaged and paralysed was jailed for another 12 months for his involvement in a Birmingham bar fight, which left one man blind.

Boparan was just 19 when his dangerous driving nearly killed Cerys in November 2006. He crashed a powerful Range Rover Sport into her parents’ car as he drove at more than 70mph on the wrong side of the 30mph Streetly Lane in Sutton Coldfield.

The family had been returning home from delivering Christmas presents with the youngster, who was about to celebrate her first birthday.

Now Boparan has been jailed for his part in an attack on two men at Brindleyplace’s Nuvo Bar last April. The victims were hospitalised after being punched, kicked and hit with broken bottles.

Builder Gareth said: “Before Christmas Cerys was very poorly and was on the edge of life. Thankfully, new medicines appear to have worked and Cerys is 100 per cent better than she was, but she remains in hospital.

“Although her condition has now improved I’m fully aware she will die from the injuries that were caused by Antonio Boparan and I know there’s no medical cure for the serious brain and spinal injuries she suffered.

“Cerys is nine-years-old now and the experts have always given her a life expectancy of 14. It is likely that she will not reach that age. She has deteriorated a lot in the last 18 months and it breaks my heart to know that there is nothing I can do.
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Tributes to 10-year-old Birmingham schoolboy, who died after collapsing at home

A 10-year-old schoolboy has died after collapsing at his Birmingham home, despite medics spending an hour trying to save his life.

Aston Villa fan Jayden Wright was found collapsed in a bedroom at the family property in Holloway, Northfield, last Saturday.

Paramedics spent more than an hour trying to revive the much-loved youngster but the Bellfield Junior School pupil was pronounced dead at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Heartbroken sister Elise, 19, paid an emotional tribute to her little brother after launching an online donation page to raise cash towards his funeral.

She said: “Jayden was a very happy, bubbly boy who loved his football. He was full of energy and full of life.

“I’m always going to miss him. He will be missed by all his family and friends.”

A post mortem has been carried out but a cause of death has not yet been determined by doctors, said Elise.

“They said it’s looking most likely to be heart-related because it was large and they are doing more tests,” she said.

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Hottest 'croc curry' restaurant holds contest to find champion eater

 The Crocodile Inferno is prepared in the Dilshad kitchen. Inset: Omid Djalili

An Indian restaurant which serves the world’s hottest crocodile curry is staging a competition to find the ultimate curry-eating champ.

The Dilshad restaurant, in Cannock, which featured on Sky’s Hot and Dangerous show with comic Omid Djalili, is offering fans the opportunity to wrestle the Crocodile Inferno for top cash prizes. The dish, made out of crocodile meat, is rated twice as hot as police pepper spray.

It is so hot that chefs at the Dilshad have to wear gas masks while they prepare it because of the overpowering chilli fumes.

Customers have travelled from all over the country to try the dish but only a handful have managed to finish it.

Comedian Djalili famously took on the Crocodile Inferno in a Man v Food challenge but crashed and burned.

Afterwards he gasped: “I never ever want to go through that experience ever again.”

Sunday Mercury columnist Mike Lockley also took on the dish but only managed two mouthfulls.

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Man convicted of stabbing to death man in flat fight tries to clear his name

A MAN who was jailed for life for the murder of a man stabbed to death at a flat in Worcester has won the first stage in a fight to clear his name.

Rikko Marks, 22, from Birmingham, was jailed with his friend, Micah Golding, for the knife murder of 39-year-old Adrian Locke in Teme Road, Tolladine, in January 2013.

Marks was not accused of wielding the knife, but of lending support and encouragement as Golding stabbed Mr Locke.

But he is now trying to overturn his conviction and last week was granted permission for a full appeal as three top judges ruled that his complaints about his trial were ‘arguable’.

His lawyers had argued that the way the trial judge directed the jury might have led to them being confused about how to consider the case.

“In our view, this does raise an important point,” said Lady Justice Macur.

“We take the view that leave to appeal should be granted.”

The Court of Appeal heard how Adrian Locke, of Wyche Road, Droitwich, was stabbed several times and found dead outside a flat allegedly used for drug dealing.

Prosecutors alleged he had gone there to buy heroin and was killed when a scuffle broke out in the property.

Marks denied involvement in the killing. He said he had seen a fight going on when he went to the property, but had seen no knife or wound.

Upstairs afterwards, Golding was panicking and getting things together to leave, he claimed.

It was only on the way back to Birmingham that his friend admitted he had stabbed Mr Locke, Marks said.

Lawyers for Marks argued the way the trial judge directed the jury how to come to verdicts on the two defendants might have been confusing.

In particular, the legal instructions had effectively removed the possibility of the jury finding Marks guilty only of manslaughter, it was argued.

Lady Justice Macur, sitting with Mr Justice Cranston and Judge Francis Gilbert QC, granted permission for a full appeal.

No date was set for the appeal to be heard.


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