{"id":191171,"date":"2025-06-17T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191171\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:10:11","slug":"suspected-rapist-wanted-by-police-as-do-not-approach-warning-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191171\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected rapist wanted by police as &#8216;do not approach&#8217; warning issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Police has launched an appeal to find Simon Christou<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_KA_BEM170625_SimonChristou.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Christou\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Simon Christou<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A suspected rapist was being hunted by police as the public were warned &#8216;do not approach&#8217;.<\/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> has launched an appeal to find Simon Christou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The force said the 41-year-old, who is from Wednesbury, was wanted on suspicion of rape.<\/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\/gunman-behind-bars-after-shots-31870769\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Gunman behind bars after shots fired in Edgbaston<\/a><\/strong><\/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\/sandwell\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandwell<\/a> Police issued a picture of the wanted man on its social media channels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An accompanying post read: &#8220;Have you seen Simon Christou?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The 41-year-old from Wednesbury is wanted on suspicion of rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;If you see him, do not approach him, but call 999 straight away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Anyone who has knowledge of his whereabouts should quote crime number 20\/563264\/24 when passing information on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Stay up-to-date by following our X feed <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/birmingham_live\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"@birmingham_liveLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">@birmingham_live<\/a> or liking our <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theblackcountrylive\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"FacebookLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">If you prefer reading our stories on your phone, consider downloading the BirminghamLive app. You can get it from Apple <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=76202X1531042&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fapp%2Fbirmingham-live%2Fid662307361&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.birminghammail.co.uk%2Fblack-country%2Fsuspected-rapist-wanted-police-do-31870894\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and for Android <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.birmingham.news&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;pli=1\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">And finally, if there is a story you think our journalists should be looking into, we want to hear from you. Email us on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/black-country\/mailto:newsdesk@birminghammail.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"newsdesk@birminghammail.co.ukLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">newsdesk@birminghammail.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police has launched an appeal to find Simon ChristouSimon Christou A suspected rapist was being hunted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,600,4884,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-191171","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-facebook","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114697694449745677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191171","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=191171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}