{"id":160467,"date":"2025-06-05T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160467\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:48:11","slug":"three-birmingham-men-arrested-following-death-of-pensioner-near-retail-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160467\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Birmingham men arrested following death of pensioner near retail park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men are being questioned four months after a car struck pedestrian Wynford \u201cWillie\u201d Griffiths in Audley Road in Stechford and then left the scene<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_Image_20250210_093659_124jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Police at the scene in Audley Road in Stechford, with a blue tent erected, six police officers pictured manning a police cordon with a police car by the side of the road and blue and white police tape surrounding the scene\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police at the scene in Audley Road in Stechford<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Three men have been arrested in connection with a crash that caused the death of a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> pensioner near a retail park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Pedestrian Wynford \u201cWillie\u201d Griffiths was struck by a car at the junction of Audley Road and Flaxley Road in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/yardley-and-stechford\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Stechford<\/a>, close to the Stechford Retail Park, shortly after 9pm on Sunday, February 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The car left the scene and Mr Griffiths, aged 71, died at the scene despite being treated by ambulance medics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A \u00a320,000 reward was offered to trace the \u2018hit-and-run driver\u2019.<\/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\/hunt-driver-man-died-hit-30969943\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunt for driver as man died in hit-and-run in Stechford<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">And now police have arrested three men, aged 29, 31, and 32, on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, on Thursday (June 5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One of the men is also being questioned on suspicion of possession with intent to supply drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Mr Griffiths family had issued a statement following his death and said: \u201c&#8221;Our beautiful brother, uncle and great uncle has been taken away from us in such an awful way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cOur world has been turned upside down with what you have done to our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_wynford-griffiths.jpg\" alt=\"Wynford &quot;Willie&quot; Griffiths, 71, died when he was hit by a car in Audley Road on 9 February\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Wynford &#8220;Willie&#8221; Griffiths, 71, died when he was hit by a car in Audley Road on 9 February(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><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 the family has been informed of the arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In a statement, a spokesperson for the force said: \u201cWe\u2019ve arrested three men following the tragic death of 71-year-old Wynford \u201cWillie\u201d Griffiths in Stechford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe collision happened on Audley Road on 9 February, and specialist investigators have been working tirelessly since then to establish the circumstances around what happened, recovering a vehicle as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThis morning (June 5), following warrants at three addresses in Birmingham, officers arrested three men aged 29, 31, and 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThey are currently in custody being questioned on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, while one is also being questioned on suspicion of possession with intent to supply drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cMr Griffiths\u2019 family has been informed of this development, and our thoughts remain with them at this tragic time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe will continue to keep in contact with them as our investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe are still urging anyone with information, who has not yet spoken to us, to contact us via 101 quoting log number 3687 of 9 February.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men are being questioned four months after a car struck pedestrian Wynford \u201cWillie\u201d Griffiths in Audley Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,67653,16,15,7830,7843],"class_list":{"0":"post-160467","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-stechford","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-west-midlands-police","16":"tag-yardley-and-stechford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114631311683178902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160467","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=160467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}