Wolverhampton Crown Court Sentencing Results

Tyriq Bingham shot a 20-year-old man in the leg in a subway underpass on Peel Street, Wolverhampton, on 12 October. The victim was taken to hospital with serious leg injuries and survived.

Malachi McPherson made threats to occupants of a property in Wednesbury on 1 November 2025. A silver Skoda pulled up outside the property at around 8.45am and threats were made before it drove off. Less than 30 minutes later the vehicle returned and further threats were made, this time with a BB gun, and a window at the property was smashed. Officers later located the vehicle in West Bromwich and saw McPherson running from it before he was detained. He had been driving dangerously while disqualified and uninsured.

Gerard Carty breached a sexual harm prevention order imposed after he was convicted of making indecent images of children. On November 4 last year, police were notified by Dropbox that his account had apparently uploaded indecent images of children. He was arrested, and an iPhone and iPad that had not been registered with police were seized, along with a VPN installed on them. Carty admitted three counts of breaching the order. The court heard there was nothing untoward on the seized devices and no suggestion he accessed indecent images on that occasion.

Arun Wilding contacted several girls, all under 16, on social media and blackmailed them into sending indecent images. He would like and comment on their posts before messaging privately and moving conversations to another platform, asking them to send images of themselves. When they stopped responding he harassed and blackmailed them, threatening to share their images online unless further images were provided. He also found out which area or school the girls attended to frighten them into complying. His offending lasted from December 2024 to December 2025.

On 17 March 2021, Keron Toussaint and Ajani Hinds, both then aged 16, attacked a 16-year-old at Walsall Railway Station. The victim was going out for the day with his partner and was minding his own business when one of the defendants shouted his social media name. Toussaint chased the victim down the platform and stabbed him twice in the back; Hinds followed and punched the victim twice, then Toussaint punched him again. The victim suffered serious wounds measuring 0.59 inches and 0.78 inches deep, requiring treatment and procedures. Both defendants were arrested at the scene, and the knives were later found.

On 17 March 2021, Ajani Hinds and Keron Toussaint, both then aged 16, attacked a 16-year-old at Walsall Railway Station. The victim was going out for the day with his partner and was minding his own business when one of the defendants shouted his social media name. Toussaint chased the victim down the platform and stabbed him twice in the back; Hinds followed and punched the victim twice. Both defendants were arrested at the scene, and the knives were later found. The victim suffered serious wounds requiring treatment and procedures.

On 22 October 2021, a mother called at the home of Chad Bassett, then aged 15, to discuss a school dispute involving her daughter. During a confrontation outside the property, Bassett stomped on the victim's face and kicked her in the head, causing an orbital fracture that required surgery and a steel plate. He later pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm and was sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 31 July 2026 to a nine-month community order.

The defendant was the front passenger in a white BMW with false number plates stopped by police on the Black Country Route near Wolverhampton on 15 September 2025. Officers found a self-loading pistol, 40 cartridges, 11 rounds of ammunition and two swords in a man bag in the front passenger footwell. He was convicted of possessing a prohibited firearm, possessing ammunition without a firearm certificate and having a blade.

The defendant was one of four men stopped by police on the Black Country Route in a white BMW with false number plates on 15 September 2025. A self-loading pistol, ammunition and two swords were found in the vehicle. He was convicted of possessing a prohibited firearm, possessing ammunition without a firearm certificate and having a blade.

The defendant was one of four men stopped by police on the Black Country Route in a white BMW with false number plates on 15 September 2025. A self-loading pistol, ammunition and two swords were found in the vehicle. He was convicted of possessing a prohibited firearm, possessing ammunition without a firearm certificate and having a blade.

The defendant was one of four men stopped by police on the Black Country Route in a white BMW with false number plates on 15 September 2025. A self-loading pistol, ammunition and two swords were found in the vehicle. He was convicted of possessing a prohibited firearm, possessing ammunition without a firearm certificate and having a blade.

On 15 August 2025, a violent early-morning clash erupted on a residential street in Bilston. Weapons including scaffolding poles, swords and machetes were used. A white Ford Focus was rammed by a silver Mercedes E Class and then blocked in by a red Ford Fiesta, sparking a fight that left three people needing hospital treatment. Lakwinder Singh was among those involved. Officers and Police Dog Ray detained the men after a vehicle pursuit turned into a foot chase.

On 15 August 2025, a violent early-morning clash erupted on a residential street in Bilston. Weapons including scaffolding poles, swords and machetes were used. A white Ford Focus was rammed by a silver Mercedes E Class and then blocked in by a red Ford Fiesta, sparking a fight that left three people needing hospital treatment. Mukesh Kumar was among those involved. Officers and Police Dog Ray detained the men after a vehicle pursuit turned into a foot chase.

On 15 August 2025, a violent early-morning clash erupted on a residential street in Bilston. Weapons including scaffolding poles, swords and machetes were used. A white Ford Focus was rammed by a silver Mercedes E Class and then blocked in by a red Ford Fiesta, sparking a fight that left three people needing hospital treatment. Hardeep Singh was among those involved. Officers and Police Dog Ray detained the men after a vehicle pursuit turned into a foot chase.

On 15 August 2025, a violent early-morning clash erupted on a residential street in Bilston. Weapons including scaffolding poles, swords and machetes were used. A white Ford Focus was rammed by a silver Mercedes E Class and then blocked in by a red Ford Fiesta, sparking a fight that left three people needing hospital treatment. Harpreet Singh was among those involved. Officers and Police Dog Ray detained the men after a vehicle pursuit turned into a foot chase.

On 19 December 2023, Zafran Sajad and three others set upon a man walking through Wednesbury. The victim was stabbed multiple times in the chest and arms before escaping and calling for help. Sajad left in a car and was traced via a £26 pizza takeaway transaction on his bank account and CCTV. He was aged 21, of Reedswood Lane, Walsall.

On April 17, 2025, at around 4pm, Joan Barwick, then 94, was driving into the forecourt of a Tesco Express in the West Midlands. She was looking at a free disabled parking space instead of ahead and failed to see the 78-year-old victim walking her dog on the pavement, which crossed the entrance. Barwick slowed to around 10mph but turned right into the garage, striking the victim with her vehicle, causing catastrophic head injuries. The victim died the following day in hospital. The incident was captured on CCTV.

Ramal Briem, an Iraqi man living in Wolverhampton, worked with an organised crime gang to illegally bring Vietnamese nationals to the UK by arranging spaces on small boats from France. He charged an alleged crime boss £1,500 for each migrant. The plot involved bringing migrants to eastern Europe on work visas, then moving them to France for the final small boat journey to the UK, where they would disappear within the Vietnamese community. The scheme was exposed in September 2023 through a chat on the alleged boss's mobile phone, seized after his arrest in April 2024 on a French extradition warrant.

Nichola Stanley, 40, from Sandwell, was part of a group that surrounded 33-year-old Matthew Adams outside a West Bromwich pub on 19 March 2023 following a family celebration. The group repeatedly punched and kicked the victim before continuing the assault in the pub car park, leaving him unconscious and bleeding. The victim later died four and a half days later in hospital, leaving behind two young children.