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Birmingham Sentencing Wave Yields Stiff Prison Terms for Violent and Organised Offenders

Investigations using CCTV footage alongside forensic evidence drove convictions for serious offences this June

Overview

  • Cornel Filipeche was jailed for ten years with a five-year extended licence after raping and wounding a woman in a Perry Barr phone box
  • Angela Davies received two and a half years for indecently assaulting a 13-year-old boy and concealing her child’s true paternity
  • Wasif Hussain and Nabela Tabassum were sentenced to 15 and nine years respectively for the attempted murder of Hussain’s stepmother in Kings Norton
  • Serving prisoner Hamza Hoo was handed an additional 12 years after using illicit phones behind bars to coordinate a gun-running operation uncovered in Quinton
  • Conrad Byrd received 12 years and nine months for transporting nearly £4 million of cocaine marked “king” during a stop in Balsall Common