{"id":1137905,"date":"2026-08-08T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1137905\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:54:21","slug":"man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-after-fatal-stabbing-in-birmingham-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1137905\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on suspicion of murder after fatal stabbing in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Saturday, 8 August 2026 14:47\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/skynews-sutton-caulfield_7316709.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a fatal stabbing in Birmingham.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"first\">West Midlands Police said that officers were called to Chester Road, Sutton Coldfield, shortly after midnight on Friday night after a man, in his 30s, was stabbed. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 20s was arrested, and is being held on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the two men knew each other, and the force is not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.<\/p>\n<p>Officers remained at the scene in the leafy <strong>West Midlands<\/strong> suburb on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/>Heat health alerts come into force<\/strong><br \/><strong>Delays at Bristol Airport after runway disruption<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Detectives said they would like to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time, and may know more about what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/skynews_2018-small.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" style=\"width:85px;height:20px;vertical-align:middle;\"\/>\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                (c) Sky News 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-after-fatal-stabbing-in-birmingham-13570963\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested on suspicion of murder after fatal stabbing in Birmingham<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, 8 August 2026 14:47 A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a fatal stabbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1137906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,19000,19007,19024,748,19003,19010,19026,393,920,19001,19023,4884,19002,19009,19025,16785,19004,19011,19027,9440,19015,19017,19014,19016,19018,19012,19013,18998,19008,19005,19021,16,15,8423,18999,19006,19022,19019,19020],"class_list":["post-1137905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-bridlington","tag-bridlington-news","tag-bridlington-weather","tag-britain","tag-driffield","tag-driffield-news","tag-driffield-weather","tag-england","tag-events","tag-filey","tag-filey-weather","tag-great-britain","tag-hornsea","tag-hornsea-news","tag-hornsea-weather","tag-local-radio","tag-pickering","tag-pickering-news","tag-pickering-weather","tag-radio","tag-radio-bridlington","tag-radio-driffield","tag-radio-filey","tag-radio-hornsea","tag-radio-pickering","tag-radio-scarborough","tag-radio-whitby","tag-scarborough","tag-scarborough-evening-news","tag-scarborough-news","tag-scarborough-weather","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-whats-on","tag-whitby","tag-whitby-news","tag-whitby-weather","tag-yorkshire-coast","tag-yorkshire-coast-radio"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}