{"id":557696,"date":"2025-11-08T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/557696\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:43:23","slug":"woman-stabbed-in-neck-in-unprovoked-birmingham-attack-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/557696\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman stabbed in neck in \u2018unprovoked\u2019 Birmingham attack in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/breakingNews1_1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Breaking News\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emails<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/breakingNews1_1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Breaking News\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A woman is fighting for her life after she was stabbed in the neck in what police believe to be \u201can unprovoked attack\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> were called to Smallbrook Queensway, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/birmingham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, shortly before 9pm on Friday after reports of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/stabbing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stabbing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The woman in her 30s suffered a \u201cserious neck injury\u201d, and she remains in hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested a man in his 20s near the scene, and he is in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector James Nix said: \u201cWe believe this was an unprovoked attack and are working to understand why it happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have officers in the area today to continue our investigation and provide reassurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not currently looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Saturday, the force added: \u201cA man is in custody after a stabbing in Birmingham last night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were called to Smallbrook Queensway shortly before 9pm after reports of a stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA woman in her 30s was taken to hospital with a serious neck injury, where she remains in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man in his 20s was arrested close to the scene and is in custody at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur officers are at the scene carrying out enquiries as we try to establish the exact circumstances of what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses or anyone with information have been asked to contact West Midlands Police by calling 101 and quoting log 5503 of November 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-557696","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\/115515321461388895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557696","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=557696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}