{"id":326738,"date":"2025-08-08T02:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326738\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:23:10","slug":"police-appeal-after-elderly-woman-90-hurt-in-birmingham-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326738\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal after elderly woman, 90, hurt in Birmingham robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> are asking for help in locating a man they want to talk to following a robbery in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, where a woman in her 90s was injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in the Kitts Green area of Birmingham at around midday on Monday, July 21, and saw a man allowed into the woman&#8217;s home after pretending to be her gardener.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0d8a6ec9-9e24-4ebe-9665-517ad406eef6.jpg\"   alt=\"Do you recognise this man? Police want to him after a woman in her 90s was injured in a burglary\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Do you recognise this man? Police want to him after a woman in her 90s was injured in a burglary<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox with the Express &amp; Star\u2019s free newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inside, the man searched the house and the woman&#8217;s handbag, and some paperwork was stolen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the woman suffered an injury to her arm as the man left the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who recognises the man is asked to contact West Midlands Police directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesperson said: &#8220;We\u2019re in contact with the woman and her family, and we\u2019re carrying out a thorough investigation, including a review of CCTV around the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you recognise him, or have any information which could help our investigation, please call us on 101 quoting crime reference number 20\/317343\/25.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police are asking for help in locating a man they want to talk to following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-326738","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-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326738","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=326738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}