Pair charged over three shop raids in three days

Two men have been remanded in prison over a series of armed shop robberies in which staff were threatened with an axe and a knife. Jonathan Jordan, aged 26, and 37-year-old John Leeson are charged with raiding Sidhu News in Washwood Heath Road, Ward End, on Saturday morning (11 March) and escaping with £250 in cash.The pair are also accused of an attempted robbery at Nisa in Kitts Green Road on Monday evening (March 13) and an attack at Co-Op in Walmley Close, Sutton Coldfield, later