{"id":126072,"date":"2025-05-23T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126072\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:40:11","slug":"urgent-appeal-as-brother-and-sister-missing-from-birmingham-were-collected-by-mums-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126072\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent appeal as brother and sister missing from Birmingham were &#8216;collected by mum&#8217;s friend&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia, aged 12 and Theo, 8, have not been seen since being collected from a relative&#8217;s house in the Weoley Castle area in Birmingham more than two days ago<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_Untitled-design-5.jpg\" alt=\"Amelia, 12 (white with shoulder-length brown hair) and her brother Theo, 8 (who is white with short black or brown hair) have gone missing after being collected from a relative's house in Weoley Castle in Birmingham two days ago \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Amelia, 12, and her brother Theo, 8, have gone missing after being collected from a relative&#8217;s house in Weoley Castle in Birmingham two days ago <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A young girl and her brother have not been seen in days after being collected from a relative\u2019s house in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> by a friend of their mother\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Amelia, aged 12 and Theo, 8, had been at a relative\u2019s address in the Weoley Castle area of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They were collected by a friend of their mum\u2019s, who they knew, at around 12.30pm on Wednesday (May 21).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">But the two children have not been seen since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/police-officer-dragged-muslim-woman-31712523\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Police officer dragged Muslim woman out of HMO in &#8216;state of undress&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Now, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> has issued an urgent appeal to trace them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers are urging the person that collected the children from the relatives&#8217; home to contact them as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The children are also said to have connections to \u2018Leicester, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/staffordshire\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Staffordshire<\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/warwickshire\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Warwickshire<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_Amelia.jpg\" alt=\"A family photo of Amelia who is 12 and is white with shoulder-length brown hair \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Amelia, 12, has not been seen in more than 48 hours after being collected by a friend of her mum&#8217;s in Weoley Castle <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In an image released by police, Amelia is white with brown shoulder-length hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">While her brother Theo has short dark brown or black hair.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_Theo.jpg\" alt=\"A family photo of Theo who is white with short black or dark brown hair\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Theo, 8, was picked up with his sister from a relative&#8217;s house in Weoley Castle on Wednesday &#8211; but his whereabout has not been known since then <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In issuing the missing persons appeal, a spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: \u201cAmelia aged 12 and Theo and aged 8, brother and sister, have been at a relatives address in the Weoley Castle area of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThey have been collected by a friend of their mothers at approximately 12.30om on May 21, whom they knew. Since that time their whereabouts are unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe would also urge the person that collected them from the family address to contact us re the children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cExtensive enquiries have been undertaken by our Missing Person Team to locate Amelia and Theo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThey have links to Leicester and Staffordshire and Warwickshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe would ask that if you know the whereabouts of the two children to please contact us on 999 quoting MPBH\/7378\/25 &amp; MPBH\/7379\/25.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amelia, aged 12 and Theo, 8, have not been seen since being collected from a relative&#8217;s house in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[54241,855,748,393,4884,10008,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-126072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-bartley-green-and-weoley","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-missing-people","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126072","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=126072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}