{"id":289616,"date":"2025-07-25T04:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289616\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:05:19","slug":"birmingham-bus-driver-punched-and-robbed-after-challenging-passenger-who-hadnt-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289616\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham bus driver punched and robbed after challenging passenger who hadn&#8217;t paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An argument turned into violence after the attacker was challenged by the bus driver over not paying<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_cctv-appeal-image-robbery-moseley-road-25062025.png\" alt=\"Police would like to speak to this man after a Birmingham bus driver was assaulted \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police would like to speak to this man after a Birmingham bus driver was assaulted (Image: WMP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police have launched a robbery probe after a Birmingham bus driver was viciously attacked whilst on the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man entered the 50A bus service without paying and attacked the driver after the vehicle had stopped in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Moseley Road<\/a> at around 5.35pm on Wednesday, June 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An argument turned into violence after the thug was challenged by the bus driver over not paying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/boy-4-suffered-burns-after-32130078\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Boy, 4, &#8216;suffered burns&#8217; after man &#8216;shoved his face into hot dinner&#8217;, court told<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The victim was punched and money was taken, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Fortunately, the driver suffered only minor injuries.<\/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> tonight issued a CCTV image of a man the force would like to identify following the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A force spokesperson said: &#8220;Do you recognise this man?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We\u2019re investigating a robbery that took place on the number 50A bus while it was parked on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Moseley Road<\/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>, on June 25, between 5.35pm and 5.40pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753416319_370_0_cctv-appeal-image-robbery-moseley-road-25062025.png\" alt=\"Police would like to speak to this man after a Birmingham bus driver was assaulted \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Police would like to speak to this man after a Birmingham bus driver was assaulted (Image: WMP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A man is reported to have entered the bus without paying and after being challenged, he argued with the driver before the incident escalated and the victim was punched and money was taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Fortunately the driver received minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We believe the man in the images could have information to help with our investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;If you recognise him, please get in touch by calling 101 and quoting 20\/287193\/25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;You can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An argument turned into violence after the attacker was challenged by the bus driver over not payingPolice would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,16555,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-289616","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-britain","13":"tag-moseley","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114911898767372576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289616","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=289616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}