{"id":349419,"date":"2025-08-16T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349419\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:07:14","slug":"residents-frightened-as-murder-suspect-arrested-after-stab-attack-in-birmingham-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349419\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents &#8216;frightened&#8217; as murder suspect arrested after &#8216;stab attack&#8217; in Birmingham home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives have arrested a man on suspicion of murder<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_cops.jpg\" alt=\"Police have launched a murder probe after a man was stabbed to death inside a property on South Road in Hockley\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police have launched a murder probe after a man was stabbed to death inside a property on South Road in Hockley(Image: BirminghamLive )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A suspect is in custody on suspicion of murder after a man was tragically stabbed to death inside a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police were called to the stabbing at an address in South Road,<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/birmingham-murder-probe-live-after-32288479\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> Hockley<\/a>, shortly after 5.15pm on Friday, August 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man inside was sadly <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/birmingham-murder-probe-live-after-32288479\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed dead at the scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE:<\/strong> <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/birmingham-murder-probe-live-after-32288479\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Birmingham murder probe live after police find man stabbed inside house<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A 40-year-old man has since been <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/birmingham-murder-probe-live-after-32288479\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested on suspicion of murder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Detectives said he remained in custody this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A cordon was in place across two terrace properties in the street following the man&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755356834_95_0_cops.jpg\" alt=\"Police have launched a murder probe after a man was stabbed to death inside a property on South Road in Hockley\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Police have launched a murder probe after a man was stabbed to death inside a property on South Road in Hockley(Image: BirminghamLive )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A mum-of-three, who lives just off South Road, said last night\u2019s tragedy was \u201cfrightening\u201d.\u201cIt\u2019s really worried me and my husband,\u201d she told BirminghamLive.\u201cWe have three children and nothing can ever happen to them.\u201dThe parent said she was praying for the family of the man who died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A dad who lives on South Road said: &#8221; The Police came quite quickly, and they closed off the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;It is worrying. You read about these sorts of things online but you never expect it to happen a few doors down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> has urged anyone with information about this incident to contact the force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for the force said: &#8220;We were called to a house on South Road at just after 5.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Tragically, nothing could be done to revive the man and he was sadly confirmed dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A 40-year-old man was arrested from the address on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;re in the early stages of our investigation and a police scene remains in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;d ask for anyone with information to contact us via 101 and quote log 4380 of 15 August.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Information can also be passed on anonymously by calling Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives have arrested a man on suspicion of murderPolice have launched a murder probe after a man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,10970,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-349419","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-hockley","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115039072770507820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349419","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=349419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}