{"id":340962,"date":"2025-08-13T10:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340962\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:59:15","slug":"three-arrests-after-woman-found-dead-in-smethwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340962\/","title":{"rendered":"Three arrests after woman found dead in Smethwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Shara Miller, aged 41, was found off Woodburn Road just after 6.10am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  West Midlands Police said nothing could be done to save her and she was confirmed dead at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Following enquiries, three men, aged 29, 38 and 31 have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They remain in custody for questioning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Officers believe Shara was killed in the early hours of the morning at the location where her body was discovered.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They are asking the public for any information surrounding her movements before 1am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Orencas from our Homicide Unit said: \u201cWe have made some significant progress in our investigation and now have three men in custody.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHowever, we still want to hear from anyone who saw Shara or spoke to her in the hours leading up to her death.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe understand she was involved in sex work around the Soho Road, Birmingham area and believe she may have been driven to Woodburn Road from that location.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIf you have any footage or information, and haven\u2019t yet come forward, please contact us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shara Miller, aged 41, was found off Woodburn Road just after 6.10am. West Midlands Police said nothing could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-340962","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\/115021110631459870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340962","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=340962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}