{"id":45625,"date":"2025-04-24T04:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45625\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T04:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:04:11","slug":"robbers-three-weeks-of-hell-in-prison-led-to-birmingham-rampage-upon-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45625\/","title":{"rendered":"Robber’s ‘three weeks of hell’ in prison led to Birmingham rampage upon release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Campbell, aged 34, was declared ‘dangerous’ and jailed for seven years\"PaulPaul Campbell(Image: West Midlands Police)<\/p>\n

A ‘dangerous’ robber’s final weeks in prison led to him going on a violent rampage in Birmingham city centre<\/a> within days of being released.<\/p>\n

Paul Campbell, aged 34, was jailed for seven years for car-jacking two Fiestas, trying to steal a moped and attacking two further vehicles with bricks.<\/p>\n

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As he was sentenced last month Birmingham Crown Court<\/a> heard that his crime spree was sparked by a rapid decline in his mental health following his release from HMP Featherstone in Staffordshire<\/a> on October 4.<\/p>\n

His barrister Holly Kilbey explained he had been detoxing from methadone, a medicine used to treat heroin, while in custody.<\/p>\n

She said: “While in the process of detoxing he became involved in an altercation with an officer at Featherstone prison which resulted in him being put in isolation.<\/p>\n

“While there his treatment was exceptionally poor. He was only allowed one meal a day as opposed to the standard two.<\/p>\n

“He was only allowed to shower twice during the three-week period he was there.<\/p>\n

“Shortly after his release from isolation he was released from Featherstone.<\/p>\n

“The effect of isolation caused his mental health to deteriorate rapidly.”<\/p>\n

\"HMPHMP Featherstone in Staffordshire(Image: Birmingham Mail)<\/p>\n

Ms Kilbey stated Campbell had not been given his medication for Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) while in isolation which has a calming effect on him.<\/p>\n

She added he was released from prison ‘unmedicated’, without a date for his drug rehabilitation appointment or without support to find accommodation.<\/p>\n

Ms Kilbey went on: “As such his mental health declines even further in the two days after release.<\/p>\n

“When committing the offences he accepts he has a full memory of doing so.<\/p>\n

“He did so under the belief his life was in danger. He can’t explain why he thought that.”<\/p>\n

Following his release on October 4 Campbell was actually arrested again for undisclosed reasons before he went on to commit his crime spree on October 7.<\/p>\n

He robbed a woman of her Ford Fiesta on the Lancaster Circus roundabout in Birmingham<\/a> city centre after flagging her down and screaming ‘stop the f****** car’.<\/p>\n

Campbell assaulted the victim and pulled out chunks of her hair in the process of stealing the vehicle, which he abandoned shortly afterwards having collided into a kerb.<\/p>\n

Next, he attacked a moped rider at a set of traffic lights on the Aston Expressway and punched him to the ground.<\/p>\n

\"PaulPaul Campbell(Image: West Midlands Police)<\/p>\n

Campbell shouted ‘m***** f***** I will kill anybody I can do anything’ but ultimately fled empty-handed.<\/p>\n

Either shortly before or after that incident he struck an ambulance with a brick on Newtown Middleway.<\/p>\n

Campbell then returned to Lancaster Circus where he again targeted a Ford Fiesta.<\/p>\n

He smashed the window with a rock and assaulted the driver who ran off.<\/p>\n

Campbell drove away but crashed the Fiesta into a set of railings on Dartmouth Middleway.<\/p>\n

His final act before being arrested was to smash the window of another moving car with a brick and gas canister.<\/p>\n

Campbell had committed 39 previous offences including wounding with intent, assaults and burglary.<\/p>\n

He was jailed for three years in 2021 for controlling and coercive behaviour, serving most of the sentence in custody before being recalled.<\/p>\n

For his October 7 crime spree he pleaded guilty to two offences of robbery, one count of assault with intent to rob, two charges of criminal damage and an offence of dangerous driving.<\/p>\n

He was sentenced to seven years with an extended licence period of three years at Birmingham Crown Court<\/a> on March 27 this year, as well as banned from driving for seven years and eight months.<\/p>\n

Recorder Michael Stephens said: “You conducted a campaign of criminal behaviour that caused immense distress and injury to those affected as well as wanton damage to property and risk to other road users.<\/p>\n

“Whatever your troubled background, you were able to and will bear responsibility for what occurred.”<\/p>\n

The judge acknowledged Campbell had met ‘significant milestones’ by remaining clean of drugs since his return to custody on remand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Campbell, aged 34, was declared ‘dangerous’ and jailed for seven yearsPaul Campbell(Image: West Midlands Police) A ‘dangerous’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,983,10386,748,30,393,4884,604,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-45625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-centre","10":"tag-birmingham-crown-court","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-staffordshire","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114390962385520346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45625","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=45625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}