{"id":265355,"date":"2025-07-14T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265355\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:44:10","slug":"birmingham-bus-passenger-spat-at-driver-after-refusing-to-pay-fare-cctv-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265355\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham bus passenger spat at driver after refusing to pay fare \u2013 CCTV appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vile incident took place on a number 51 bus which runs between Birmingham city centre and Walsall<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Bus-attack-appreal.jpg\" alt=\"CCTV images of a white man, with a beard and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, wearing a black hat and a black and grey hooded coat&#10;&#10;\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>West Midlands Police officers would like to speak to this man in connection with a bus driver being spat at on a number 51 bus in Aston after a passenger refused to pay the fare<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A CCTV appeal has been launched to find a man wanted in connection with a vile incident on 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> bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The passenger got on a Number 51 bus on Monday, March 24 when an incident took place close to Six Ways Island in<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/aston-and-nechells\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> Aston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The passenger is said to have got on the bus which runs between <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-city-centre\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham city centre<\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/walsall\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Walsall<\/a> and not paid shortly after 12.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He has then had an argument with the bus driver.<\/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\/birmingham-child-rapist-abused-victim-32059511\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Child rapist \u2018abused victim for years\u2019 keeping indecent photos of her on phone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">This led to him spitting through the slot separating the driver from the passengers, and landing on them.<\/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> is asking for the public\u2019s help to identify a man wanted in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In CCTV images he is shown as being white, with a beard and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He is wearing a black hat and a black and grey hooded coat.<\/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=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In issuing the CCTV appeal a spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: \u201cDo you recognise this man?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe would like to speak to him following an assault on the number 51 bus in Birmingham close to Six Ways Island on 24 March, between 12.40pm and 12:55pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cA man entered the bus without paying and had a dispute with the driver. He then spat through the slot which has hit the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cIf you recognise the man call us on 101 quoting crime number 20\/186475\/25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cAlternatively, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vile incident took place on a number 51 bus which runs between Birmingham city centre and WalsallWest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[8595,855,748,101261,188,393,4884,16,15,10847,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-265355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-aston-and-nechells","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-cctv-appeals","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-walsall","18":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114854013508934792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265355","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=265355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}