A 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder following a horrific knife rampage in Birmingham city centre on Sunday. The random attacks took place across 90 minutes in four parts of the city centre in the early hours of Sunday morning and sparked a huge manhunt for the knifeman, with police releasing CCTV of him last night. He left a 23-year-old man dead during the rampage, while a woman, 32, and another man, 19, are in a critical condition and five others suffered less serious injuries. A suspect was detained at 4am this morning at an address in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham, three miles from the scene of the rampage, after West Midlands Police said it received a ‘strong response’ from the public to the CCTV footage. However, the force has come under criticism for not stopping the rampage while it was underway, with Khalid Mahmood, Labour MP for Perry Barr, questioning how the suspect was able to run through Birmingham city centre stabbing people for nearly two hours. The MP even suggested that the dead man could have been saved had police responded quicker. He said: ’We’ve got to look… Read full this story
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