Richard Clay, 41, a former employee of Solihull Council, has been given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years after admitting to a series of offences involving upskirting and voyeurism. The charges came to light …
Birmingham City Council has expressed its full support for the National Inquiry into Grooming Gangs as the city becomes one of the latest areas under investigation. In a statement on October 1, Council leader Cllr Roger …
Birmingham is confronting a serious and ongoing challenge in protecting vulnerable children from sexual exploitation, with 98 active investigations currently underway, according to a recent report by Birmingham Children’s …
A man from Birmingham has been convicted after stalking a woman by falsely claiming her children were his and turning up uninvited at their school. Delroy Johnson, aged 46, of West Boulevard in Quinton, faced charges of …
Marcus Harris, aged 24, has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to charges relating to attempting to arrange or facilitate a child sexual offence. The offences involved the sending of inappropriate …
Joshua Jones, aged 24, from Solihull, has been convicted of possessing a large number of indecent images of children but has avoided a custodial sentence. Police officers carried out a search of his home in Solihull, during …
Marcus Harris, 24, has been sentenced to six years in prison and placed on the sex offender register for life following his conviction for attempting to arrange child sex offences via Snapchat. Harris sent disturbing …
The government led by Andy Burnham has announced a significant change in Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks for parents and carers. Across England, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, parents and carers …
A 24-year-old man from HMP Birmingham has been sentenced to six years in prison for attempting to arrange the rape of a child under 13 via Snapchat. Marcus Harris was prosecuted after engaging in a series of messages with an …
A 24-year-old man from Solihull has avoided imprisonment after admitting to making nearly 100 indecent images of children. Joshua Jones appeared at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday, 7 September, where he was sentenced …
A Coventry man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after his attempts to arrange the sexual abuse of children were uncovered. Richard Stevenson, aged 39, from Waveley Road, was caught discussing his disturbing …
Adoption Focus has highlighted the increasingly urgent need for adopters with its new campaign, ‘They’re Still Waiting’. Previously, children awaiting adoption typically faced an average wait of eighteen months; however, …
Paul Clarkson, 56, has been handed a suspended prison sentence after being caught in a sting operation by a group of paedophile hunters. The Wolverhampton man engaged in explicit online conversations with a decoy profile …
A former teacher at Dame Ellen Pinsent School in Kings Heath, Birmingham, has been permanently banned from the teaching profession following his conviction for child sex offences. Rashid Umran, aged 47, was sentenced to over …
Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Wolverhampton, has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of child sexual offences. The conviction followed an extensive undercover police sting operation aimed …