{"id":155671,"date":"2025-06-03T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155671\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:20:10","slug":"supermarket-staff-assaulted-before-alcohol-stolen-as-police-launch-cctv-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155671\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermarket staff &#8216;assaulted before alcohol stolen&#8217; as police launch CCTV appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have shared an image of a man they wish to speak to in relation to the incident<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_image-wm-1.jpg\" alt=\"Police want to speak to this man\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police want to speak to this man(Image: West Midlands Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police have shared a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to after supermarket staff were assaulted 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>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Alcohol was reportedly stolen in the incident on Fairfax Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Since the ordeal on March 9, officers have been carrying out enquiries but have so far been unable to identify the man pictured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They have shared an appeal to the public in the hopes of tracing him.<\/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\/black-country\/midlands-area-homeowners-saw-45000-31692505?int_source=nba\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Midlands area where homeowners saw \u00a345,000 wiped from value of propertiesLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Midlands area where homeowners saw \u00a345,000 wiped from value of properties<\/a><\/strong><\/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\/black-country\/dad-who-experienced-terrible-back-31168982?int_source=nba\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Dad who experienced &#039;terrible back pain&#039; died nine days after going to hospitalLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Dad who experienced &#8216;terrible back pain&#8217; died nine days after going to hospital<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for <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> said that the incident happened at around 6pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They added: &#8220;Do you know who this is?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We would like to speak with him after staff from a supermarket in Fairfax Road, Birmingham, were assaulted before alcohol was stolen, at around 6pm on 9 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Since the incident, investigating officers have carried out CCTV enquiries but have been unable to identify this man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They continued: &#8220;If you can help with our investigation you can contact us via 101 quoting crime reference number 20\/169830\/25.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The image shows a man wearing a hat and a dark top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have shared an image of a man they wish to speak to in relation to the incidentPolice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-155671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155671","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=155671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}