Local man John Ashby pleads guilty to rape and assault after courtroom outburst
John Ashby, a 32-year-old man of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to rape, religiously aggravated assault, intentional strangulation and robbery after changing his plea during trial at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday. The court heard how Ashby followed a Sikh woman from a bus stop in Walsall last October, picked up a two-foot stick from … Read more