{"id":368140,"date":"2026-01-13T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368140\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:20:08","slug":"two-jailed-for-killing-man-in-failed-watch-robbery-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368140\/","title":{"rendered":"Two jailed for killing man in failed watch robbery in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Griffin also admitted attempted robbery before the trial and McDonnell was convicted of the same offence by the jury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Kristina Montgomery KC said the victim was &#8220;active and independent&#8221; and the two men&#8217;s actions caused his family &#8220;profound grief&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said McDonnell did not play a minor role and the case was &#8220;joint enterprise in the truest sense&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the court heard McDonnell was sorry to the victim&#8217;s family for what happened, the judge said Griffin never showed any true accountability or remorse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You have lied and lied in the course of the investigatory stages of this case and in your evidence before the jury,&#8221; she told Griffin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two defendants had a number of previous convictions dating back decades for offences such as burglary, robbery and weapons offences, the court heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Griffin also admitted attempted robbery before the trial and McDonnell was convicted of the same offence by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-368140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}