Birmingham Murders

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  Indian-Origin Man Gets Life Term For Killing Mother In UK Over TV Remote

  A 39-year-old Indian-origin man who killed his mother at her home in Birmingham has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 15 years behind bars before being considered for parole.

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  UK Police Launch Murder Probe After Mass Stabbing

  One man was killed and two people were critically injured during a "random" stabbing attack lasting several hours in Britain's second city of Birmingham, police said on Sunday.

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  Man Found Guilty Over Car Attack Outside UK Parliament That Injured Many

  A London jury on Wednesday convicted a man of attempted murder after he tried to mow down cyclists and police with his car outside the British parliament last year in an attack that prosecutors said had a terrorist motive.

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  UK Cops Closer To Solving 22-Year-Old Murder Case Of Indian-Origin Woman

  British police investigating the 22-year-old murder case of an Indian-origin woman in Birmingham are hopeful of solving the case after finding some DNA clues.

• Two men of Indian-origin charged with attempted murder of General KS Brar

  Two men have been charged with the attempted murder of Lieutenant General (retired) Kuldip Singh Brar, the hero of the 1984 Operation Bluestar, British police said today. Barjinder Singh Sangha, 33, of Wolverhampton and 34-year-old Mandeep Singh Sandhu of Great Barr, Birmingham will "appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court today," the ...

• Indian-origin man, wife killed for two cellphones

  Indian-origin Avtar Singh Kolar and his wife Carole Kolar were battered to death in a lump hammer attack in their Birmingham home earlier this month for just two mobile phones and two watches, a media report today said.

• Indian-origin man's murder accused found dead in jail

  A Lithuanian national arrested for the twin murders of Indian-origin man Avtar Singh Kolar and his English wife in Birmingham has been found hanging in his prison cell, where he was lodged since early this month.

• Lithuanian man charged with murder of Indian-origin man, wife

  A 37-year-old Lithuanian national has been charged with the murders of Indian-origin Avtar Singh Kolar and and his wife Carole Kolar in Birmingham last week.

• Don't keep gold at home, UK police warns Indians

  Amidst a spate of robberies for gold items in homes belonging to people from the Indian subcontinent, the British police today issued specific crime prevention advice, asking members of the community not to keep articles made of the precious metal at home.

• Birmingham murders not driven by gold theft

  Detectives investigating last week's double murders of Indian-origin Avtar Singh Kolar and his wife Carole Kolar in Birmingham have ruled out gold theft as a motive, while the police have been given more time to question one of the arrested suspects.

• Indian-origin man, wife killed in Birmingham home

  Children of a couple found murdered in their English home made a heartrending appeal on Thursday for help in finding their killers. Avtar Kolar and Michelle Kirwan sobbed throughout a police press conference on Thursday as they paid tribute to their parents, who also have eight grandchildren. "We are all hurting so much inside because they were so ...

• Indian-origin man, wife killed in UK

  An Indian-origin man and his English wife have been murdered in Birmingham, the British police said today, weeks after an Indian student was killed in an apparent hate crime in Manchester.