{"id":403960,"date":"2025-09-07T00:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403960\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:44:22","slug":"police-address-social-media-rumours-as-they-issue-major-alum-rock-murder-probe-suspect-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403960\/","title":{"rendered":"Police address social media rumours as they issue major Alum Rock murder probe suspect update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are keen to stress the hunt for Asad Khan was not linked to the big emergency services incident which unfolded in North Birmingham on Friday evening<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_asad-khan-wm-2.jpg\" alt=\"Asad Khan\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Asad Khan(Image: West Midlands Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police believe the prime suspect in a Birmingham murder case might have fled to central London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Images of Asad Khan were issued after the body of a man, in his 40s, was found on Alum Rock Road around 7am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A huge hunt has unfolded and detectives now believe the 24-year-old may be around the Covent Garden area of London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/pedestrian-suffers-life-changing-injuries-32428145#source=breaking-news\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More: Pedestrian suffers life-changing injuries after Bearwood high street hit-and-run<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><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> are also keen to stress that the murder investigation was not connected to a major incident which unfolded in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/erdington\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Erdington<\/a> where a man was detained after he was seen &#8216;behaving suspiciously&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police later released the man and said the call was &#8220;genuine&#8221; and with &#8220;good intent but turned out to be inaccurate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_asad-khan-wm.jpg\" alt=\"Asad Khan\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Asad Khan(Image: West Midlands Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They have also said that after studying CCTV, Khan is still said to have longer hair and not a shaved head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Jackson Road and a part of Alum Rock Road was cordoned off on Friday as forensic searches were undertaken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Detective Inspector Nick Barnes, from our Homicide Team, said: &#8220;We really need to hear from anyone who has any information on Khan\u2019s whereabouts to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cIf you see him or know where he is, you must not approach him, but get in touch with us immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The statement added: &#8220;You can send any information, or images, directly to us via the link here <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/mipp.police.uk\/operation\/20HQ25A82-PO1\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Public Portal (mipp.police.uk)Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Portal (mipp.police.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Anyone with information is asked to contact us either by Live Chat on our website, or by calling 101, quoting log 527 of 5 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;If you see him in the London area, or have any information please call Metropolitan Police quoting log 2123 of 6 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Information can be passed to Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are keen to stress the hunt for Asad Khan was not linked to the big emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[35488,855,748,393,22048,4884,19657,15267,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-403960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-alum-rock","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-erdington","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-kingstanding-and-oscott","15":"tag-perry-barr","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115160250068734907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403960","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=403960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}