{"id":333188,"date":"2025-08-10T13:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333188\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T13:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:12:17","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-man-charged-after-thefts-from-birmingham-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333188\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne: Man charged after thefts from Birmingham tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Thousands of tributes were left near the Black Sabbath Bench and mural in Birmingham City Centre, following the death of the heavy metal pioneer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  West Midlands Police said officers were alerted to a theft on Broad Street, and following enquiries, identified a 45-year-old man who was arrested last Saturday (2 August).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Today (August 8), Parviz Jafari, of Beaconview Road, West Bromwich, has been charged with the theft of flowers from the tribute site.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He is set to appear before Magistrates on September 3.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The shrine, dedicated to Ozzy, was taken down earlier this week, with the tributes to de handed over to the Osbourne family.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On 30 July, the Osbourne family visited the memorial at the Black Sabbath Bench as Ozzy&#8217;s coffin was driven along Broad Street in his home city, where thousands lined the streets in tribute to the Black Sabbath frontman.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/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":333189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-333188","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\/115004646595361503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333188","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=333188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}