UK police chief attacks ‘ill-informed’ critics after knifeman response delay claim

A view of the Sidewalk nightclub, from Kent Street, on the corner of Hurst Street, past which the ‘smirking’ attacker was seen walking, shortly after stabbing at least two people further up the street. Police are searching for one suspect following the stabbings in which one man was killed and seven other people injured.

A chief constable in the UK has attacked the “ill-informed critique” of his officers’ response to the Birmingham knife attacks, amid claims that alleged delays may have cost a man his life.

David Thompson, who heads West Midlands Police, said there would be a “time and place to the review the actions” of police, after a 23-year-old man was killed and seven others injured, some critically, during a spate of stabbings on Sunday.