{"id":177925,"date":"2025-06-12T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177925\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:30:12","slug":"appeal-for-help-finding-man-suspected-of-robbery-at-shop-in-bordesley-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177925\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for help finding man suspected of robbery at shop in Bordesley Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Midlands Police<\/a> have launched the appeal and released an image of a man the force said it wanted to speak to following the incident on February 11.<\/p>\n<p>The force said the man had entered the shop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.gov.uk\/downloads\/file\/15439\/bordesley_green_factsheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bordesley Green<\/a> and gone behind the counter to demand the till be opened, then hit a staff member with an object before stealing cigarettes and leaving the building.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police said it hoped that by releasing the image of the man, it might help someone to recognise him and get in contact.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;Recognise this man? We&#8217;re looking to speak to him after a robbery in Bordesley Green.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3b2d5d2b-0c65-49b3-b232-2462ac75bdd7.jpg\"   alt=\"This CCTV image has been released of the man West Midlands Police said it wanted to speak to. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>This CCTV image has been released of the man West Midlands Police said it wanted to speak to. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 8.30pm on 11 February, a man entered a shop and went behind the counter demanding the till be opened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When a member of staff refused, they were hit with an object before the man stole cigarettes and left the building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the robbery, our officers have carried out extensive CCTV and door-to-door enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, they are releasing the image of this man in the hope someone recognises him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you recognise this man, contact us via 101 quoting crime number 20\/142476\/25.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police have launched the appeal and released an image of a man the force said it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-177925","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-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177925","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=177925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}