{"id":127959,"date":"2025-05-24T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/127959\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:17:09","slug":"two-men-charged-with-murder-after-pensioners-death-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/127959\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men charged with murder after pensioner&#8217;s death in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said Neil O&#8217;Donnell was hospitalised after being assaulted with a screwdriver in Hall Green<\/p>\n<p>12:03, 24 May 2025Updated 12:19, 24 May 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_Neil-ODonnell.jpg\" alt=\"Neil O'Donnell\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Neil O&#8217;Donnell(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two men have been charged with murder and conspiracy to rob following the death of an 83-year-old man in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\"\/>Police said Neil O&#8217;Donnell was hospitalised after being assaulted with a screwdriver on Cateswell Road, Hall Green, at around 2.30pm on May 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Mr O\u2019Donnell suffered an arm injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"http:\/\/Police conduct probe after van driver killed in Sutton Coldfield crash\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Police conduct probe after van driver killed in Sutton Coldfield crash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was later discharged from hospital before being re-admitted on May 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He died four days later on May 21.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748089029_471_0_Neil-ODonnell.jpg\" alt=\"Neil O'Donnell\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Neil O&#8217;Donnell(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Wesley McDonnell, 46, of College Road, Moseley, and Tony Griffin, 54, of Mill View, Birmingham, were arrested the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/JcXF3MxQGZs3GoiEA8W2fn\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They were later charged with murder and conspiracy to rob and were remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The pair will appear at Birmingham Magistrates&#8217; Court today, May 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Don&#8217;t miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the BirminghamLive newsletter here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Det Insp Nigel Box of West Midlands Police said: &#8220;Our thoughts are with Mr O\u2019Donnell\u2019s family today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We are continuing to offer them all the support we can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;They have asked for their privacy to be respected as they come to terms with their loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said Neil O&#8217;Donnell was hospitalised after being assaulted with a screwdriver in Hall Green 12:03, 24 May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[25375,855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-127959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-billesley-and-hall-green","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114562770134524557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127959","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=127959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}