{"id":286221,"date":"2025-07-23T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286221\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:36:10","slug":"sandwell-labour-councillors-suspended-after-alleged-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286221\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandwell Labour councillors suspended after alleged assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Labour said it was &#8220;extremely concerned&#8221; about the incident and suspended both councillors from the party &#8220;immediately&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The party said it would not be commenting further because of the ongoing police investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said it was called after a report of an assault in the early hours of Sunday morning on Surfeit Hill Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesperson said it was called to the street at about 02:50 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;On arrival crews found two men who they treated for injuries not believed to be serious before conveying them to hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for West Midlands Labour said: &#8220;Both councillor Millard and councillor Mayo were administratively suspended by the Labour Party immediately upon receipt of these allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Given this is subject to a police investigation we are not able to comment further at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Labour said it was &#8220;extremely concerned&#8221; about the incident and suspended both councillors from the party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-286221","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114904706903478451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286221","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=286221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}