A series of dangerous and prolific offenders from Birmingham have been handed significant prison sentences this November, according to the latest court reports from the region.
Violent Crimes and Fatal Consequences
Andrew Behan, 41, was sentenced to six years and seven months for the manslaughter of his friend, Francis Leitner, 45. The two alcoholics had been on a 12-hour drinking session when a row broke out over a broken television. Behan headbutted Mr Leitner outside a shop and then repeatedly punched and elbowed him in the face at their HMO in Aston. Mr Leitner was later discovered to have a bleed on the brain and died in hospital two days later.
Danielle Mitten, 34, from Kings Norton, was jailed for five years and four months after she admitted causing death by dangerous driving. Mitten was speeding at up to 82mph on a 40mph road in Quinton when she ran over and killed Lucy Atkins and her dog, Simba. She was also banned from driving for seven years and eight months.
In a separate case, Dante Kalsi, 28, from Erdington, was given a three-year sentence for perverting the course of justice. Kalsi was captured on CCTV removing a Second World War-style Sten machine gun from Gavin Parry, who had just been shot dead inside a car repair unit on the City Industrial Estate in Winson Green on April 13, 2021. Kalsi was cleared of murder and manslaughter. He is already serving a 15-year sentence for an unrelated double shooting.
Organised Crime and Drug Networks Dismantled
A significant drugs operation known as the 'Foxy' line was brought down, leading to the imprisonment of five men. The group, which operated in Birmingham and Solihull for over four years, used a WhatsApp group with more than 2,000 members to advertise and supply class A drugs.
Ikram Hussain, 29, was jailed for 12 years. Jack Clark, 25, received a six-year sentence. Amar Khan, 23, was sentenced to nine years and six months. Brothers Adil Muhammed, 20, and Gohar Muhammed, 29, were jailed for five years and seven months and six years and nine months respectively. Police raided a safe house in the Jewellery Quarter, seizing cocaine, cash, phones, and a debt ledger.
In another drug case, Noor Khan, 47, was sentenced to five years and seven months for running the 'Noor' drugs line in Erdington. He was stopped in a car containing large amounts of wrapped class A drugs and a phone used for supply. A subsequent search of an address in Stechford uncovered a suitcase with his name on it containing more than £20,000 worth of heroin and cocaine.
Shocking and Bizarre Offences
Anthony Doyle, a 67-year-old gas engineer from Stirchley, was exposed as a paedophile a year after his wife won a £3 million home in an Omaze lottery draw. Doyle had repeatedly sexually assaulted and secretly recorded a young girl, leading her to break down at school. Analysis of his phone revealed he had recorded a second girl and sexually assaulted a third victim. He pleaded guilty to numerous child sex offences, voyeurism, and making indecent images, receiving a sentence of six years and three months.
Birmingham rapper Omar Abdirizak, 32, from Sparkbrook, was jailed for six years and nine months with an extended two-year licence after he used a makeshift flamethrower at a petrol station. Following a dispute with a shop worker over fuel and cigarettes, Abdirizak used an aerosol can and a lighter to blast flames at the employee and damage a drinks machine. In an act described as risking 'catastrophe', he then shot fire into the air on the forecourt. The court heard he has schizophrenia.
Richard Gull, 32, was sentenced to four years for a series of offences. He pulled a knife on a security guard after being caught stealing alcohol from a Sutton Coldfield supermarket. While on bail, he then burgled a home in Erdington that was being used as a food bank and stole a car.
Other criminals sentenced in November include prolific shoplifter Kieran Brooks, 21, who received a two-week jail term and a two-year Criminal Behaviour Order for targeting stores at the Princess Alice Retail Park. Anthony Jarvis, 32, was jailed for over nine months and given an 18-month CBO for multiple thefts in Sutton Coldfield. Xiao Long Lin, 28, was sentenced to two years and three months for assaulting a man with a pole and for possession of cannabis with intent to supply after police found over £12,000 worth of the drug in his bedroom.
