Why the Net has the advantage in the ‘Undies world’
- Shopping blogger Emma Iannarilli
Weekend of violence on the streets
Monday 25th August 2008, 11:45AM BST.
Two men died and more were wounded during a Bank Holiday weekend of violence on streets across the West Midlands.
Police were called to six separate violent attacks in the region, many in city centres packed with shoppers or revellers. Officers today called for calm amid fears some of the attacks could be gang-related.
The weekend’s violence included:
* A 21-year-old man who died with suspected stab wounds following an attack in Wolverhampton City Centre.
* A 24-year-old man shot dead near to his home in Newtown, Birmingham.
* A father-of three, aged 45, stabbed in the stomach in West Bromwich.
* A security guard, aged 28, stabbed in the leg near to the Saddlers Centre in Walsall in front of shocked shoppers.
* A security guard from Sainsbury’s in Perton taken to hospital after being stabbed in the arm.
* A woman in her 20s attacked, knocked unconscious and seriously sexually assaulted as she walked home from a night out in Kidderminster town centre.
Detectives sealed off three of Wolverhampton’s busiest roads to carry out forensic examinations following city murder.
It is believed the man suffered a stab wound through the heart and was taken to New Cross Hospital by friends in a taxi at around 4am yesterday. The city’s Royal London pub fell within the cordon and it is believed workers on Saturday were forced to stay inside.
Police today appealed for calm amid fears of a gang war exploding on the region’s streets after a 24-year-old was gunned down near to his Birmingham home. Jobless Dimitri Foskin was shot in the chest within half a mile of his home in Newtown on Saturday night. In West Bromwich, plasterer Nick Savory was stabbed in the stomach as he walked home in Oak Road just before 5pm on Saturday, while a security guard was wounded in the leg a short time later in Walsall town centre.
A woman in her 20s was seriously sexually assaulted at around 3am today as she walked home in Kidderminster.
Sponsored Links
Business Awards
Book a Business Awards table
Join our celebrations of the region's best in business on Thursday March 22 - book your table now
Lifestyle
Interactive Dining Out map
Hundreds of reviews by the Express & Star and Shropshire Star's teams to help you decide where to eat.
entertainment
All the film reviews
Before you plan a trip to the pictures, get our critics' verdicts on all the latest movie releases
OUR NEW APP
Get the new E&S app
Download the Express & Star’s new app to your iPad or iPhone to get one week of access to our digital newspapers absolutely FREE.
expressandstar.com
Popular sections
Useful links
what is happening its just gets worse is any one safe on the streets these days????
Report abuse
its starting to make me wish i never had kids will it ever get better what life will they have if they get caught in the wrong place
Report abuse
Where do we go from here?
Report abuse
Im looking to buy a property near Tettenhall but i now have my concerns if this violence keep escolating.
Report abuse
If people want to be violent. Put them in the army. Good men and women are losing their lives in war zones. These young thugs should be ashamed of themselves. Human life is priceless and irreplaceable, they are wasting the most valuable thing they,and those they kill, possess……life.
Report abuse
It broke my heart to leave the black coumtry 20 years ago,but after reading all the things going on their thes’e days. Im’e glad i came to this beautiful country for a better life for my family.The old uns that made it such a great and proud place to live must be turning in their graves.I come back for holidays but it makes me sad to see what the black country is becomeing.
Report abuse
our cities great
its the the scum that live in it :@:@:@
Report abuse
Like Brisbane Baggie, a lot of Black Country folks have left the area, some of them citing crime as the reason. Me myself, I’m living in Wolverhampton, and I think our city has a lot to offer culturally. Yeh – crime is a problem but there are a lot of good things here too. I love the diversity and vibrance of this city – yeh I like the place!
Report abuse
Bad parents make bad kids.
Lack of discipline equals lack of respect.
If we’re all so concerned, why are we all sitting here on our backsides doing nothing?
Broken products of society.
You reap what you sow.
Report abuse
Why is there never a description of the person who’s carried out the attack?
Report abuse
I remember the Midlands being a nice place to live. Could it be the lack of discipline, respect and punishment causing this? Unfortunately, leftwing politics and leftwing liberal ideas have destroyed a once great nation.
Report abuse
The question I’m asking myself is: Do I want to come to Wolverhampton, even to visit my family? If I come to visit my parent’s grave, will I not find myself suddenly alongside them?
Report abuse
i used to live in perton around the corner from sainsburys i moved half a year ago and i am glad because it is starting to turn to a war zone there
Report abuse
I now live in Perton and have been for 16 years but you do seem to see a lot of strangers around here nowdays, which is a big worry. Its becoming a dumping ground for the unwanted.
Report abuse
So much for CCTV, come on boy’s in blue do your job
Report abuse
Regarding comment #12, I acknowledge that there is a crime problem in Wolverhampton, but I feel that we should not let this prevent us from going about our daily business in this city. We must not let the thugs intimidate us to that extent. It’s only sensible to take care and be alert but we should still go out and about as normal.
Report abuse
I was at stabbing of the security guard at Walsall Town Centre on Saturday just after it happened with my sister-in-law and two young nephews. It is not what you expect to see while out shopping for the children’s back to school stuff. My younger nephew who is only 6, was guite scared and went very quiet the rest of the shopping trip.
Report abuse