he had purchased from a car dealer in Manchester.

Investigators said they hoped Kevin’s arrest had dealt a significant blow to dealers operating in the Midland’s and North West, and also those which bought them.

Police suspect he made over 2 mil-lion pounds, an investigation has been launched to seize assets.

Kevin was arrested at his house in Moseley in March 2009 after a 6-month operation involving investiga-tors from the serious organised crime agency (Soca).

Police have confirmed that Kevin owns a number of small warehouses in which he stores the illegal drugs, how-ever their whereabouts are unknown.

Detectives say that Kevin had oper-ated under 30 aliases which meant that they were unaware of his illegal drug dealing activities until he was arrested at his home in Moseley.

Police are still investigating that in-cident and as yet believe that the two attacks are not related.

Despite this witness accounts de-scribed that the attacker was wearing a hooded shirt as well as a plain white mask which had a “smiley face” hand drawn onto it.

Police have increased plain clothed foot patrols in the area and have ad-vised residents to be on the alert, but as yet are baffled as the killers mo-tive.

West Midlands head superintendant Micheal Jones has personally set up a task force to look into the attacks.

They have appealed to anyone with

bers of the public to come forwardwith any information they may have.

Det. Matt Markham, from Bourville Lane Police station said: “We current-ly have a full team of forensics study-ing the crime scene for any leads, It seems that the attack had no purpose but to simply end a life, when we found young Jonathan, his wallet and jewellery were not taken.”

Local shopkeeper, 35 year old Patrick Kumar said: “It was horrific, just plain shocking, in all my life I have never heard of such brutality, the attack seemed completely un-pro-voked.”“The killer must have been hiding in the bushes because nobody noticed him before the crime, I was crossing the road when I saw a body lying on the street.”

“I went towards him and noticed a man lying motionless in a pool of blood and I immediately called the police.”

“I hope that he is stopped before an-ymore innocent people are hurt.”A previous attack took place just 6 months ago, when a man struck down 25 year old Helena Stevenson in Kings Heath park as she was walking her dog.

Kevin Bright, 36, a former police of-ficer was yesterday sentenced to 16 years in prison after 15 large cases packed with an illegal drug were found in his basement.

Kevin left the police force in May 2008, his former colleagues at the West Midland’s police headquarters described him as “a friendly, hard working officer.”

It was 3 years ago when police ar-rested 25 year old smuggler, Andrew Ryan, detectives described him as “a significant supplier.”

Police Det. Thomas Collin said: “we are fortunate to have stopped the major source of illegal drugs, now we have focused are attention towards the many links which Andrew has.”

“Kevin Bright is just one of the many dealers in a large network operating in Liverpool, Manchester and Birming-ham.”

Det. Neil Mann said: “It is believed that Kevin was in debt to a number of people, we have found evidence to link him with 28 bank hits which happened last year.”

“The money was used to fund a large operation where Kevin would purchase the illegal drugs from his suppliers at an abandoned car park in Sparkhill.”

“To move the drugs to his house he used a 1995 Ford Transit van which

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The photo shows a man walkingon Stevenson Rd at 10.48 pm on Monday night.

Police would like to quiz this man in relation to the stabbing of 21 year old Jonathan Collins, who was re-turning home from his night shift at a local restaurant when he was stabbed.

It is believed that Collins was con-fronted by the murderer before re-ceiving 8 stab wounds to the chest and the stomach in a violent attack.Jonathan’s parents, Lindsay and Pe-ter were horrified when they learnt of their son’s tragic death.

Lindsay Collins said: “We loved our Jonathan, we do not understand why someone would want to com-mit such a horrible act, he will be remembered always.”

Peter Collins, the father said: “Jonathan was a good lad, he was al-ways lively and fun to have around, I hope that this selfish Individual is caught and brought to justice.”

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A military transport truck was transporting weapons to the local army base in Worcester when it came to a stop on Tyler road as several shots erupted inside its storage.The truck was followed closely

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SUDDEN gunfire was heard in the early hours of Tuesday as a firearms truck carrying over 40 weapons passed through Kings Heath.

George Cameron and Det. Math-ew Williams.Local resident, 39 year old Mark

Thompson, said: “I was suddenly awoken by the sound of gun fire.”“It lasted less than a minute,

when it had stopped i looked out of the window and saw a truck and a car stopped in the middle of the road.”Detectives say that after a close

inspection of the truck they found that the safety catches on the weapons were turned off and they have launched an investigation to find out why the guns were loaded and were being transported in an unsuitable condition.The Truck also received some

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let holes.Inspector Cameron said: “We

were lucky that it was in the earlyhours of the morning and no one was hurt.”“We have currently closed the

road to retrieve the bullets safely and to move the truck which re-ceived light damage.Inspector’s say that it could be up

to a week before the road is open again, in the mean time it will con-tinue to cause inconvenience for the residents.The 32 bus route which passes

through the road has been diverted down Howard Lane.Inspectors claim that this inci-

dent was “purely accidental”, and are working hard to ensure that the mistake is not repeated.

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