source: BBC News
published: 1 July 2014

The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Bob Jones has died “in his sleep” aged 59. Mr Jones, from Wolverhampton, was elected to the role as a Labour candidate in November 2012.

He courted controversy when he called for PCCs to be scrapped, but also lent his support to several campaigns while occupying the role.

His deputy Yvonne Mosquito confirmed he died on Tuesday morning, describing his death as a “huge loss” to policing. Bob was a dear friend and a deeply committed public servant. All our thoughts are with Bob’s wife Sarah and his family at this sad time,” she said.

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source: Birmingham Mail 
published: 17 June 2014

A police watchdog has cleared officers of any wrongdoing after a driver they were following died in a crash as he raced to see his stabbed brother in hospital. Kevin Burris, 29, (a relative of 4WardEver UK’s Tippa Naphtali) was killed in the tragedy four years ago and was found by his own mother, who had been at the bedside of his critically-injured sibling Karl.

He was on his way to City Hospital with four friends after hearing his brother had been stabbed at a Smethwick nightclub and was in intensive care.

Karl survived, but Kevin died when his car crashed into a lamppost in Dudley Road, Winson Green, just yards from the hospital in the early hours of March 26 in 2010.

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