{"id":34389,"date":"2025-04-20T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34389\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T02:02:09","slug":"police-appeal-for-information-about-bespectacled-bilker-after-birmingham-garages-were-swindled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34389\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for information about bespectacled bilker after Birmingham garages were swindled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Police have appealed for information about the man after he swindled a number of businesses in Birmingham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police said: &#8220;Know who this is? We want to speak to him after incidents of a man making off without payment in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1b9ced4b-f118-4841-a476-a5d984a69df3.png\"   alt=\"Do you know this bilker? \" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Do you know this bilker? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A man failed to pay a business in Saltley for work completed on his car on 18 February. This comes after a similar incident last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the man is asked to contact us via Live Chat on our website, or by calling 101, and quote 20\/151363\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police have appealed for information about the man after he swindled a number of businesses in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34390,"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-34389","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\/114367833534710583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34389","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=34389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}