Evening news round-up for the Black Country and north Worcestershire

Police have issued an urgent appeal to help find a missing Stourbridge man.

Matthew Gill, aged 43, left his house at 9am on Friday October 6 and has not been seen since.

Police say Mr Gill did not arrive at work and his phone has been switched off.

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A Quartet of Redhill School teachers will be running the Birmingham Marathon this weekend in memory of tragic pupil Pierce Wilkinson.

Head of geography Matt Porter, head of PE Mike Field, PE teacher Esther Allen and Andrew Bishop will take to the streets of the second city on Sunday (October 15) in their bid to raise funds for The Greyhound Trust – a charity very close to Pierce’s heart.

The 13-year-old was tragically murdered in his Norton home earlier this year alongside his mother Tracey.

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Halesowen Town said today they are investigating an incident which saw one of the team’s fans injured after being hit by a flare during the 2-1 win at Stourbridge on Saturday.

Two flares were set off during the ‘number nine derby’, a blue one after Halesowen’s first goal and a red one following the Stourbridge strike.

West Midlands Police confirmed a woman in her 60s – who was in the away end – suffered bruising to the throat after being hit by a “smoke bomb”, but no arrests have yet been made.

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A man who was three times over the drink-drive limit has been banned from the roads for 23 months.

Tony Dhala, aged 39, of Halesowen Road, Old Hill, had 110mcgs of alcohol in 100mls of breath when he was caught behind the wheel in Cradley on September 17.

The legal limit is 35mcgs.

He must carry out 80 hours unpaid work and pay a victim surcharge of £85 and £135 court costs.

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West Mercia Police is appealing for the public's help in locating a man who is wanted under a European arrest warrant.

The warrant for Karol Michalski was issued by Westminster Magistrates' Court in connection to drugs and theft offences in Poland.

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A Bromsgrove fraudster has been jailed alongside his brother for heading a complex computer repair scam, involving hundreds of fake firms, which conned consumers nationwide.

Yassar Rashid, of Nailers Close, Stoke Heath, conspired with his brother Amir, from Sherwood Mews in Hall Green, to place dozens of adverts in Yellow Pages and Thomson Locals for seemingly-different computer repair companies across England and Wales.

Claiming to trade under business names like 'Matt's Computers', 'Adam's Computers' or 'Computer Repairs Cheltenham', the pair would advertise a local telephone number and partial address to give the impression they had a shop nearby.

When customers contacted them, the brothers would send out an 'engineer' to take the computer away, often 'holding it to ransom' until the fees demanded were paid.

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A mother from the Rednal area has admitted taking a photo of her six-year-old daughter wearing fishnet tights and sending it to a man she met online.

The woman, who is in her 30s, pleaded not guilty at Coventry Crown Court to causing or inciting her child to engage in sexual activity.

The court heard how, at the request of pervert Paul Fryer, she had recorded the girl dressing in fishnet tights and sent the movie clip to him.

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