A drug lord who ran a £35 million crime empire, a student who raped a woman and told her: "This is what university is like" and a Staffordshire man who raped and sexually assaulted two young girls are all behind bars this week.
A budding entrepreneur has been jailed after launching a brutal attack on a train revenue officer - because he fined him for travelling without buying a ticket.
Nine people have been sentenced over their parts in a mass brawl in Birmingham in which a Syrian refugee was killed.
A driver who killed a child and a father-of-three - while injuring three others in a horrific crash has been jailed.
An evil family who imprisoned a vulnerable mother and her daughter and used them as domestic slaves have been jailed for nearly 50 years.
They are just a few of the people who have appeared at court the past week.
Here's a round-up of some of the biggest cases dealt with across the region.
Ivan Graham
A drug lord who ran a £35 million crime empire has been jailed for 24 years.
Police found a huge stash of loaded weapons, cash and drugs.
Ivan Graham, aged 35, of Whetstone Drive, Rugby, was dubbed 'Mr Big' by neighbours, reports the Coventry Telegraph
A police raid at a home owned by Graham uncovered four terrifying loaded weapons including a Uzi sub-machine gun fitted with a silencer, a Walther PPK .22 calibre pistol, a Smith and Wesson .38 calibre revolver and a stun gun disguised as a firearm.
Steven Christian
A student who raped a woman and told her: "This is what university is like" has been locked up for five years .
Steven Christian, from Solihull, attacked the victim in her room at Keele University after a pub quiz in September last year.
The 20-year-old had been a student ambassador during the evening, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard.
The victim was left so traumatised that she now made herself vomit, jurors were told.
Birmingham courts
Eamonn Doyle
A Staffordshire man has been handed a 26 year jail term for the sickening rape and sexual assault of two young girls.
Eamonn Doyle, aged 66, was sentenced on Monday (October 22) at Stafford Crown Court after being found guilty of the rape of the girls, who were both under 13 when the vile attacks took place .
Doyle, who is known as Paul, of Coulthwaite Way, Rugeley, assaulted the youngsters between 2002 and 2017 in Rugeley, Staffordshire.
He was found guilty of three counts of rape of a girl under 13, two counts of assaulting a girl under 13 by penetration and one count of assaulting a girl under 13 by touching.
Find out what happens during a legal trial in our video below
Stefan Phillip
A budding entrepreneur has been jailed after launching a brutal attack on a train revenue officer - because he fined him for travelling without buying a ticket.
Stefan Phillip battered his victim at Snow Hill Station leaving him with broken ribs and a 5cm hole in his skull.
Birmingham Crown Court was told Phillip was angry after ticket revenue officer Mohammed Siddique fined him £20 after discovering he hadn't bought a ticket on February 21 this year.
Then on February 26 the 29-year-old saw Mr Siddique walking in the concourse of Snow Hill Station as he was just finishing his shift .
Rebaz Kamal, Shabana Bibi, Abdul Alshameri, Shabaz Kamal, Abderrahman Chouhaib, Awaas Aftab, Tabean Abdullah, Andam Rasol, Adam Ijaz
Nine people have been sentenced over their parts in a mass brawl in Birmingham in which a Syrian refugee was killed.
The eight men and one woman were charged after clashes in Highgate two years ago when Ibrahim Ismail was stabbed to death.
No-one has been arrested over 23-year-old Mr Ismail's death.
At Birmingham crown court on Monday the group of people who Mr Ismail was with on that fateful night were either jailed or received suspended prison terms over the brawl.
Roger Bannister
A driver who killed a child and a father-of-three - while injuring three others in a horrific crash has been jailed.
Roger Bannister, 41, had been driving on a country lane in Frankley Green when he smashed into another car.
Bannister's five-year-old boy and Mohammed Shakeel tragically died shortly after the collision on Ravenhayes Lane.
Two others, Shakeel's son and Bannister's wife were seriously injured.
James Wilson
A Mercedes driver was high on cannabis when his speeding car hit and killed a teenage university student.
James Wilson, 20, has now been jailed for six years over the death of much-loved Charlie Heywood in Great Barr.
He was found guilty of causing the death of the 19-year-old whist driving under the influence of drugs at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday (October 19).
Wilson, of Chudleigh Grove, Great Barr, will also be banned from driving for six years when he is released. He will also have to resit a driving test.
Jean Kelly, Michael Kelly, Anastasia Hitt, Ian Healy
An evil family who imprisoned a vulnerable mother and her daughter and used them as domestic slaves have been jailed for nearly 50 years.
The two victims were subjected to “sadistic” violence during their ordeal.
On Friday, wheelchair-bound gran Jean Kelly was jailed for 14 years at Warwick Crown Court, reports CoventryLive.
The 53-year-old grandmother forced a mum and her daughter - who both had learning difficulties - to eat uncooked pasta and they were horrifically beaten.
Find out what modern slavery is in our video below
William Jones
A courageous woman chased a robber for 20 minutes before knocking at a house he sought refuge in - to demand the cash back.
Recorder Geoffrey Kelly praised the actions of Shauna Campbell who jumped over fences and walls in Winson Green a bid to keep up with crook William Jones.
She never gave thought for her own safety as she chased him to a house and then banged on the door to demand the stolen cash be returned.
When he refused, she alerted the police who came and arrested him.
Jones, who has a record of 81 offences and 35 convictions to his name, pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery when he appeared before video link at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday. He was jailed for 90 weeks.
Cocaine gang
An Albanian crime lord who headed up a multi-million pound UK-wide cocaine racket has been jailed for 25 years.
Erald Mema, 33, ran a network which traded drugs from Birmingham to the Black Country and to Oxford, London and Bristol.
He was today convicted of two conspiracies to supply cocaine, between June 1 2016 and December 2 2016.
A jury took nine hours and 12 minutes to find the 33-year-old guilty.
His drugs gang has now received a total 150 years in jail sentences.
Mohammed Abtidon-Hassan
A "dangerous" thug serving a ten-year jail sentence has been handed more prison time over a brutal attack on an inmate who refused to pay protection money.
Mohammed Abtidon-Hassan was part of a gang who beat up Matthew Trueman when he ignored their demands for cash at Swinfen Hall Young Offender Institution, near Lichfield.
The victim was led into a cell and punched in the face by Abtidon-Hassan before he was repeatedly kicked and stamped as he lay on the floor.
Mr Trueman, who feared for his life, blacked out in the attack, which happened in February last year.
Abtidon-Hassan, 21, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent at Warwick Crown Court. He was given a five-year extended prison term, on top of his previous sentence.
Find out what to do if you are a victim of crime from our video below
Michael Cosco
A train pervert who sexually assaulted a 13-year-old schoolgirl and deliberately rubbed his groin against a woman during a string of offences in Birmingham has been caged.
Michael Cosco, of Halesowen Road, Cradley Heath , molested three women across the local rail network from February to April.
The 63-year-old, who pleaded guilty to one charge of sexual assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court, first “violated” an 18-year-old woman on the Birmingham to Sutton Coldfield service .
He stood next to the victim and rubbed himself against her shoulder on March 13, making the victim feel uncomfortable.
Sunil Kumar
A travel agent has been jailed amid claims he tried up to cover up a £380,000 fraud involving his crashed Birmingham firm.
Most of the cash was owed to a single creditor of Sunil Kumar Ralhan's company, Travelogue Ltd.
The 37-year-old was the sole director of the firm, which was liquidated in May 2015 after it failed to recover cash from travel agents based abroad which had bought tickets through the company.
But Rehman had failed to keep proper accounts and did not share them with either insolvency workers or investigators from the Insolvency Service.
Sarweeth Rehman, Hussun Ashraf
Chilling CCTV captures the moment a pair of violent thugs battered a motorist - then set about causing £10,000-worth of damage to his BMW M4.
The harrowing footage shows the duo - responsible for a string of vicious car robberies across Birmingham and Solihull - hitting the driver with a golf club and metal bar.
Sarweeth Rehman and Hussun Ashraf were jailed on Tuesday for their parts in the plot, which saw mainly women drivers targeted in a series of terrifying carjackings.
The pair, both aged 22, attacked motorists with golf clubs, baseball bats or metal bars before driving off in high-end cars. What the brutally violent attacks in the above video.
