West Midlands Police

Two teenage boys are in custody on suspicion of kidnapping after a car was stolen in Birmingham with the owner’s two children still inside, police say.

Nathan Maynard-Ellis and David Leesley dismembered the body of Julia Rawson.

A search is underway for a man who is believed to have carried out a series of stabbings in Birmingham which left one person dead and seven injured - two seriously - police say.