{"id":559891,"date":"2025-11-09T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/559891\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:39:13","slug":"police-want-to-identify-man-after-inappropriate-incident-on-birmingham-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/559891\/","title":{"rendered":"Police want to identify man after ‘inappropriate’ incident on Birmingham bus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are appealing over an ‘outraging public decency’ incident on the number 74 bus service\"PolicePolice would like to identify this man after an ‘inappropriate’ incident on a bus travelling from West Bromwich to Birmingham(Image: West Midlands Police)<\/p>\n

Police would like to identify this man after an ‘inappropriate’ incident on a bus travelling from West Bromwich to Birmingham<\/a> city centre.<\/p>\n

Officers want to speak to the man pictured in connection with an allegation of ‘outraging public decency’ on the number 74 bus service.<\/p>\n

The incident happened at around 8.20am on Thursday, September 18.<\/p>\n

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An outraging public decency offence is described as when someone does something ‘lewd, obscene or disgusting’ in the presence of members of the public.<\/p>\n

Police today issued a CCTV image of the man officers would like to identify in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n

He was pictured wearing a stripy polo shirt and a jacket.<\/p>\n

The man appeared to be holding a phone in his hand.<\/p>\n

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Appealing for information, a spokesperson for West Midlands Police<\/a> said: “Recognise this man?<\/p>\n

“We want to speak to him in connection with an allegation of outraging public decency on a bus.<\/p>\n

“It happened on 18 September on the number 74 bus travelling from West Bromwich to Birmingham city centre<\/a> at around 8.20am.<\/p>\n

“If you recognise him or have any information, get in touch via Live Chat or by calling 101 and quoting crime reference number 20\/380707\/25.”<\/p>\n

Information can also be shared anonymously by contacting Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing over an ‘outraging public decency’ incident on the number 74 bus servicePolice would like to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,16,15,17299],"class_list":{"0":"post-559891","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-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-west-bromwich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115521203375568891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559891","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=559891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}