Suspected thief arrested thanks to flower power

A suspected thief is in custody this afternoon (Sunday 1 March) after raising the suspicions of a passing police community support officer (PCSO) by running from a top city gallery with a flowery mobile phone!

The 34-year-old man from the city centre was spotted by the West Midlands PCSO leaving the University of Birmingham’s Barber Institute of Fine Arts with an expensive iPhone 6 in a flowery case.