Birmingham Crown Court<\/a> on Thursday (June 25).<\/p>\nThe incident took place at Budgens on Hooper Street shortly before 2pm on January 31 this year.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Jas Dhaliwal, opening the case, stated Jaimal Lakhu was working on the tills when he noticed Edwards ‘circling around the store’ and suspected he was not going to pay.<\/p>\n
He subsequently told a colleague to head off the defendant at the shop entrance.<\/p>\n
Mr Dhaliwal said Edwards tried to force his way past the worker but ended up being pushed back inside.<\/p>\n
He continued: “Mr Lakhu tried to shut the doors while his colleague was grappling with him. The defendant threw a punch.<\/p>\n
“The shutters were coming down because Mr Lakhu had activated them.<\/p>\n
“The defendant picked up the bag of rice that had dropped to the floor and punched Mr Lakhu in the face with his right hand.<\/p>\n
“He forced the door open to the entrance while being held by Mr Lakhu’s colleague.<\/p>\n
“He continued to throw punches, which landed, to their body and their heads.<\/p>\n
“As the shutters were coming down the defendant pulled out a knife and tried to saw or use a sawing action to Mr Lakhu’s colleague’s wrist.<\/p>\n
“He had his arm around the defendant. The defendant pulled out the knife and appeared to saw away at his arm.”<\/p>\n
But Judge Samantha Crabb adjourned the case for an update on the impact to the worker and clarification as to what extent he was injured.<\/p>\n
She said the case involved ‘quite serious matters’, adding the victims ‘should have been given the opportunity’ to make statements.<\/p>\n
The case was adjourned until a later date in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrian Edwards, aged 45, tried to steal two bags of rice and some milk from Budgens in Edgbaston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10386,748,30,188,10387,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-222122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-crown-court","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-edgbaston","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114762705055878049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Budgens on Hooper Street in Edgbaston<\/p>\n