15/07/2011 Midlands Today

Good evening. The Shropshire man serving life for a brutal murder in

1994 has been found responsible for two others committed in the same

year. Robin Ligus was 59 and was presented in the dock for only one

day at his month-long trial at Birmingham Crown Court, having been

judged mentally unfit for taking part in the proceedings.

He called himself a natural born killer, but it took 17 years to

bring Robin Ligus to full account for his crimes. He has been in jail

for the mid- 90s, when he battered to death Robert Young, a retired

businessman and his home in Shrewsbury. I don't know who would

want to do that to him. He did nobody any harm. He would chatter

as we went by. We now know this is not his only killing, far from it.

I had an iron bar. It was inside my camouflage jacket and I hit him on

the back of the head. And 2009, he confessed to the murder of Trevor

Bradley, an antiques dealer found and the remains of his burnt-out

car. I hope he rots in hell. I truly hope you rot in hell.

Trevor's younger brother of new Robin Ligus and says he is a

psychopath. He is now confined to a wheelchair and has been considered

mentally unfit to attend the trial. He has a full-time carer in prison.

There are pensioners out here that have led an honest life and they

cannot have their own careers. But we have this sort of person already

doing life for killing someone, living the life of luxury.

other victim was Bryan Coles, battered over the head during a

burglary at his bungalow in Whitchurch. The original police

inquiry team have doubted the truth of his confessions which he later

retracted. A decade on, Cold Case Review Letters to the charges.

Robin Ligus claimed he drowned another man when he was just 17 but

police found no record of that victim. And imagining, perhaps, of

a murderous mind. And Robin Ligus will be sentenced

on July 29th. The jury found it had not been proved that he was

involved in the death of Bernard Czyzewska, whose body was found in

the River Severn in November, 1994. West Midlands police blame the

soaring price of gold for a soaring spate of street robberies targeting

the Asian community. Across the area, 52 women have had their

jewellery snatched this month, double the average. Our reporter

has had exclusive access to the police operation which has seen

over 100 arrests in two weeks. Gold has never been such a safe

investment. But with prices doubling in the past 12 months,

opportunist thieves present a real danger. Naeeda Bi found this out to

her cost. My daughter was with me at the time. He jumped on me.

is one of 15 Asian women targeted by chain snatches in Birmingham's

famous Soho Road Road area in the past month. Police say that Asian

gold has become a target because it is purer and often on display. They

are targeting individual suspects, but police recognise they must also

reassure the wider community. ensure there is his ability in key

locations to show the public we are taking the effects of robbery

seriously. -- there is visibility. And we are sending out the message

to robbers, and we are out in force, overtly and covert leave. This is

�100,000 worth, smelted down in a few minutes. Reputable jewellers in

the City have adopted a Neighbourhood Watch style or

approach to stop thieves trying to use them to liquify stolen gold.

one of us has a problem, everybody is aware within seconds that there

is a problem in the area and to look out for people. The West

Midlands Police is pouring resources into the crime hot spots

that this is creating. Cricket now, and Warwickshire take

on Leicestershire in a Twenty20 match and Edgbaston's new

floodlights tonight. There will be in full match commentary from 7