A 10-year-old girl managed to break free after she was grabbed
by three men who tried to force her into a van in the Shard End
area of east Birmingham at around 8.30am on Thursday 3rd March
2011
A 16 year-old boy was abducted by two men from a number 49
bus at a stop on the Pershore Road South in Kings Norton on
Thursday 07/10/10; they made him withdraw £250 from a cashpoint
and then forced him to accompany them on a taxi ride across
Birmingham.
A pensioner aged 62 was assaulted, robbed and locked in a flat
on Cateswell Road in Hall Green for 5 days by a 24-year-old man
who was jailed for 4 years in September 2010.
A 43-year-old cab driver was jailed for one year in January 2010
for kidnapping a 19 year-old female passenger whom he abducted
and then sexually assaulted at Chester Road Railway Station.
A 28-year-old man from Tedbury Crescent in Erdington, who
participated in the kidnapping of a debtor and his unlawful
detention until payment of a ransom of £15,000, was sentenced to
an indeterminate term of imprisonment at Birmingham Crown Court
in December 2009.