{"id":200644,"date":"2025-06-20T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200644\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:25:10","slug":"group-of-girls-attack-elderly-woman-and-leave-her-with-head-injury-at-birmingham-beauty-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200644\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Group of girls&#8217; attack elderly woman and leave her with head injury at Birmingham beauty spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police were called to an incident involving a group of females in Sutton Park which led to a woman in her 70s suffering a head injury and being taken to hospital<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Banners-Gate-entrance-Sutton-Park.jpg\" alt=\"Google Maps view of the Banners Gate entrance to Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A woman in her 70s suffered a head injury following trouble with a group of girls or women at the Banners Gate entrance to Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A pensioner has suffered a head injury and been rushed to hospital after an attack at 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> beauty spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The incident took place at Banners Gate in Sutton Park, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/sutton-coldfield\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Sutton Coldfield<\/a> on Wednesday (June 18).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Several witnesses reported a \u2018group of aggressive girls\u2019 hitting an \u2018old lady\u2019 in the park off Monmouth Drive shortly after 7.30pm.<\/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\/police-called-sutton-coldfield-town-31861988\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Police called to town centre fight as \u2018man attacked woman\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One witness said the police and ambulance service were called.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A woman in her 70s was said to have suffered a head injury and was taken to hospital<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The incident is said to have taken place near to the play area, with the girls involved said to have been in that play area at one stage.<\/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=\"http:\/\/Asda thief sat on man and kissed him in car park before stealing gold chain\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\">Asda thief sat on man and kissed him in car park before stealing gold chain<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Another witness said: \u201cI witnessed this too and thought it was disgusting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cShouting in front of my daughter, and other children. Disgusting behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cSaw the older women on the floor at one point. I saw the women holding her head with tissue, think it was bleeding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cKnow police got called though hope she is okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=218d93d5-683b-44a9-b5bd-566f5c9e39e9&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get the latest Sutton Coldfield news delivered direct to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/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-ambulance-service\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Ambulance Service<\/a> said it had no record of the incident but <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 confirmed it is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesman for the force said: \u201cWe were called to reports of disorder involving a group of women close to Banners Gate Lodge, Sutton Park, on Wednesday (June 18), shortly after 7.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cOne woman, in her 70s, was taken to hospital with a head injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe are investigating and people with information should contact us via 101 quoting crime number 20\/278984\/25.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called to an incident involving a group of females in Sutton Park which led to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,7829,20657,16,15,8596,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-200644","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-sutton-coldfield","13":"tag-sutton-park","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-midlands-ambulance-service","17":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114717336171371404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200644","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=200644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}