{"id":328085,"date":"2025-08-08T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328085\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:28:17","slug":"man-charged-after-theft-from-ozzy-memorial-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328085\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after theft from Ozzy memorial in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of tributes were left near the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksabbath.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Sabbath<\/a> bench and mural in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham <\/a>City Centre, following the death of Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/12624dd0-13f4-42c5-918c-ce1fb8137c6b.jpg\"   alt=\"The lord mayor of Birmingham Zafar Iqbal views the messages and floral tributes left at the Black Sabbath Bridge bench on Broad Street in Birmingham in memory of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Tributes to Ozzy Osbounre left at the Black Sabbath Bridge bench on Broad Street in Birmingham  (Joe Giddens\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police statement said: &#8220;We were alerted to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theft o<\/a>n Broad Street, and following enquiries, our officers identified a 45-year-old man and he was arrested last Saturday (August 2).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parviz Jafari has now been charged with theft of flowers, and will be appearing before magistrates on September 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of tributes were left near the Black Sabbath bench and mural in Birmingham City Centre, following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328086,"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-328085","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114993620930572543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328085","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=328085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}