{"id":333873,"date":"2025-08-10T19:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333873\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T19:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:14:13","slug":"man-charged-in-connection-with-theft-of-flowers-from-ozzy-osbourne-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333873\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in connection with theft of flowers from Ozzy Osbourne tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of tributes including balloons, cards and flowers had been left near the Black Sabbath bench on Broad Street and mural in Navigation Street in the musician&#8217;s home city since he died.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1_GettyImages-1202010471.jpg\" alt=\"Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne(Image: FilmMagic)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man has been charged in connection with the theft of flowers that were left in Birmingham in tribute to Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Thousands of tributes including balloons, cards and flowers had been left near the Black Sabbath bench on Broad Street and mural in Navigation Street in the musician&#8217;s home city since he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Black Sabbath frontman, who had been diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s disease in 2019, died aged 76 on July 22 from a reported heart attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">West Midlands Police said they were alerted to a theft on Broad Street, where the Black Sabbath bench is, and arrested a man on August 2 after making inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The force said Parviz Jafari, 45, has been charged with theft of flowers, and will be appearing before magistrates on September 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Birmingham City Council gathered up tributes left at the Black Sabbath bench on Monday, which will be handed over to the Osbourne family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The family viewed the tributes last Wednesday during a procession in which the heavy metal star&#8217;s body was carried through his home city a final time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of tributes including balloons, cards and flowers had been left near the Black Sabbath bench on Broad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-333873","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\/115006070142420375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333873","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=333873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}