A man has admitted kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy and the separate abduction of a young girl. The defendant, who cannot be named, appeared before Wolverhampton Crown Court by video-link.

Two men have been charged with robbing two jewellers in Dudley and Halesowen. Carlus Walker, aged 18, of Milverton Road, Coventry, appeared at Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.

A gang of armed robbers who tore a trail of terror across the West Midlands and South Staffordshire were today starting prison sentences totalling 52 years.

An ice cream man who turned to drugs smuggling, leading a gang who brought tons of cannabis into the West Midlands, will pay back more than £460,000 of his ill-gotten gains.

A man from Walsall caught with a computer and camera stolen from a shop during last summer’s riots has been spared jail.

A convicted armed robber who had a sawn-off shotgun hidden in his room was today behind bars after being jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

Police have seized cocaine with a street value of £1.4 million after smashing a suspected drug dealing operation in Stourbridge, it was revealed today.

A man who threatened to set his 83-year-old grandmother alight when she refused to give him money to buy alcohol was today beginning five years behind bars.

A teenager who drove his car through a procession of hundreds of worshippers at one of Europe’s biggest Sikh parades has been banned from driving.

A television belonging to murdered elderly couple Giuseppe and Caterina Massaro was sold for £160 the day after their bodies were found inside their Wolverhampton home, a court heard.