{"id":186309,"date":"2025-06-15T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186309\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:17:12","slug":"woman-sexually-assaulted-on-birmingham-bus-journey-police-seeking-male-suspect-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186309\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sexually assaulted on Birmingham bus journey &#8211; police seeking male suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The woman was a passenger on the number 16 near Hamstead Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Handsworth<\/a>, at around 7pm on May 3. The National Express West Midlands service operates between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/great-barr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Barr<\/a> and the city centre via Hockley, Handsworth Wood and Hamstead. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-embedded gd-embedded fr-draggable\" alignment=\"center\" isinline=\"False\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/e1ee0c1dc40f-image.jpg\"\/>After launching an investigation West Midlands Police has released an image of a man suspected of being involved in the assault.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone who recognises him to phone 101 quoting incident reference number 20\/230020\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman was a passenger on the number 16 near Hamstead Road, Handsworth, at around 7pm on May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,25038,4884,379,12,12608,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-186309","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-barr","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-local-hubs","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sandwell","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114687341120643728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186309","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=186309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}