{"id":432326,"date":"2025-09-17T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/432326\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:44:10","slug":"police-probe-after-man-left-with-serious-head-injuries-following-birmingham-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/432326\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe after man left with &#8216;serious&#8217; head injuries following Birmingham assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> are appealing for information after a man was attacked and seriously injured in an assault in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edgbaston<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man was attacked from behind with a weapon by another man on Stirling Road between 3am and 4am on July 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox with the Express &amp; Star\u2019s free newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The victim was left with serious head injuries, and had his cash, phone and designer jacket stolen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the incident, investigators have carried out several enquiries in the area, including reviewing CCTV footage; however, they have still not been able to identify who was involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, the force is asking anyone who may have been in the area at the time of the attack to get in touch with them directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesperson said: &#8220;We are now appealing to anyone who was in the area that may have spotted anything suspicious, no matter how small.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can help with our investigation, you can contact us via Live Chat on our website, or by calling 101 quoting crime reference number 20\/321639\/25.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can also speak to Crimestoppers anonymously by calling 0800 555 111.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police are appealing for information after a man was attacked and seriously injured in an assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432327,"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-432326","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\/115222299662277923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432326","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=432326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}