‘My finger started swelling, so I thought I needed to take the ring off – but it wasn’t coming off.’

‘It was made out to be a prank, but the man said he was goaded on by the wife to ask a school kid.’

Maz Saleem said the death of her dad’s killer does not give her family justice.

Pavlo Lapshyn is confirmed to have died in a Category A jail.

A family in Birmingham say criminals have crashed into their businesses three times after they refused to pay them £30,000.

The family own the Middle Eastern-inspired Bab Al Hara Cafe on Grafton Road, Sparkbook, as well as a wedding venue on the same road.

But at around 10pm on August 30, a Range Rover smashed into the front of the café while a wedding was happening opposite.

CCTV footage showed the back of the car driving through the front window, damaging the window and metal shutters, only to reverse and crash through it again.

The group escaped in a Hyundai car, with an occupant who was wielding a machete, leaving the Range Rover behind.

Following the incident, the family said the culprits phoned them demanding the six-figure sum of money or else ‘your business will close within six months’.

The family attempted to negotiate a deal with the gang in a bid to ‘collect evidence’ for the police.

But when they went to the local authorities, the café was rammed again at around 12.50am on Saturday.

A second vehicle smashed into the Bab Al Hara Banqueting Suite – the gang fled in two getaway vehicles, one a 4×4 and the other a pick-up truck.

The family say they still don’t understand why they have been targeted and asked to pay £300,000.

But they believe they have somehow been caught up in a seven-year feud between gang members who frequent the cafe and rivals from Smethwick.

A member of the family, who does not wish to be named, said he has not experienced this treatment before.

He said: ‘We have worked 15 years in this country. We assist with the traffic on Fridays and during the month of Ramadan. We are a household name here.

‘These people have said you won’t have a business. How can a group of people come start an issue outside our workplace and then set up an extortion?’

The family member also claimed that a ‘man with a mask’ came to his mother’s house.

He added: ‘This is a family business. It’s sad to see. My father is a bit emotional. It’s extortion.

‘Whatever they are doing, we are in a country that doesn’t do this; if you have a problem, you go to the police.’

A police investigation into blackmail is now underway.

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The youngster was heading from the city centre to the airport when the attacked happened on June 5.

A man is fighting for his life after four people were shot at a ‘sold out’ club night in Birmingham in the early hours of this morning.

A ‘Celebration to Life’ night at Mango nightclub in Bristol Street ended in violence after four people were shot at around 3am.

One man is in a critical condition while three others, two men and a woman, are being treated for less serious injuries.

Three suspects aged in their 20s and 30s were arrested from a car on the M6 in Warwickshire soon after the shooting.

They are in custody on suspicion of violent disorder as the investigation continues.

The shooting happened an hour before the end of a ‘Celebration to life’ event at the club.

Mango said on their social media on Friday that the event was sold out, telling guests to ‘dress to impress’.

A video from their social media shows large queues outside the venue on Friday night.

Different social media footage later showed dozens of ambulances and police cars in Bristol Street as emergency services responded to the shooting.

Acting Chief Inspector Michael Clarke said: ‘This happened in a busy nightclub, on one of the main roads out of Birmingham city centre, so it’s vital that we hear from anybody who saw what happened or who may have captured it on dashcam as they went past.

‘Our investigation is moving rapidly, and urgent enquiries has led to the arrests of three people, but we continue to investigate as we identify everyone involved.

‘If you were in the club at the time and saw what happened, or recorded any footage from inside the venue, we need to hear from you urgently.’

Bristol Street southbound has been cordoned off and motorists have been advised to avoid the area.

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‘When I looked at it, it had the whole of the school on it.’

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‘I started to panic, I felt like I couldn’t breathe.’

An organiser said ‘hostility’ has made it necessary to cancel the event.

‘We lost everything apart from each other.’

‘It’s very important to our family to know that she wasn’t alone at the end’

‘It blows KFC out of the water.’

A man in his twenties was reportedly attacked near Ladywell Walk, where officers responded to a call at around 7.45 am this morning.

In many parts of England, the St George’s Cross has become unavoidable in recent weeks.

Aimee Betro disguised herself in a niqab and tried to shoot dead a stranger in Birmingham.

Aimee Betro disguised herself in a niqab and tried to shoot dead a stranger in Birmingham.

Aimee Betro, 45, was flown to the UK from Wisconsin as part of the plot orchestrated by Mohammed Aslam, 59, and Mohammed Nabil Nazir, 31.

Naiyahmi and Tai Yasharahyalah were sentenced to a total of 44 years following the death of their son.

The launched into a racist tirade while being arrested and even mooned the judge in court.

The government said it was targeting the gig economy and people working illegally in food delivery jobs.

The Tractor Boys can bounce back