{"id":318147,"date":"2025-08-04T21:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318147\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T21:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:29:14","slug":"body-discovered-in-woodland-believed-to-be-missing-birmingham-man-as-family-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318147\/","title":{"rendered":"Body discovered in woodland believed to be missing Birmingham man as family informed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Midlands Police<\/a> found the body in the woodland in Edgbaston after a week-long search for 33-year-old Jack.<\/p>\n<p>Jack, who was from Handsworth and had links to Wolverhampton, had gone missing on July 29, with <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.expressandstar.com\/news\/2025\/07\/29\/appeal-to-trace-missing-birmingham-man-with-links-to-wolverhampton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Midlands Police saying at the time they were concerned for his welfare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The force said that while formal identification had not yet taken place, Jack&#8217;s family had been informed, and offered sympathies to them and his friends at this time.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;Officers searching for missing 33-year-old Jack have sadly found a body in woodland in Edgbaston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Formal identification is yet to take place but Jack&#8217;s family have been informed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not treating the death as suspicious and our sympathies are with his family and friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers from West Midlands Police found the body in the woodland in Edgbaston after a week-long search for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,16,15,4349],"class_list":{"0":"post-318147","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-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wolverhampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114972627235438798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318147","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=318147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}