{"id":566212,"date":"2025-11-12T20:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566212\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:56:21","slug":"katie-foxs-family-pay-tribute-to-beautiful-and-kind-daughter-following-fatal-birmingham-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566212\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Fox&#8217;s family pay tribute to &#8216;beautiful and kind&#8217; daughter following fatal Birmingham stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Fox, 34, was taken to the hospital with a <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.expressandstar.com\/news\/2025\/11\/12\/smethwick-man-accused-of-stabbing-woman-in-neck-in-birmingham-could-face-trial-in-may\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious injury to her neck<\/a> after she was stabbed in the Smallbrook Queensway area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> just before 9pm on Friday, November 7.<\/p>\n<p>Katie sadly died a few days later.\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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/22cf8559-b11e-462d-80fa-887e269eadf0.png\"   alt=\"Katie was fatally stabbed in the neck in the Smallbrook Queensway area of Birmingham on Friday, November 7\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Katie was fatally stabbed in the neck in the Smallbrook Queensway area of Birmingham on Friday, November 7<\/p>\n<p>Katie&#8217;s family have now paid tribute to their &#8216;beautiful and kind&#8217; daughter, describing her as a &#8216;shining light&#8217; in their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speak via West Midlands Police, Katie&#8217;s family said: &#8220;Gone too soon, Dear Katie, so beautiful and kind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA part of us was snatched away on that very fateful night, a part of us also vanished suddenly, when you passed away, leaving us all with such sadness and heartache.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were a shining light in our lives, you were so special in every way, you were everything a daughter could be and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour loss to us has been so hard to bear and so hard to comprehend, but we know that you are still with us and giving us the strength in every way. You are our guardian angel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod bless you, Katie, our special and gentle daughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to all who have shown support during this most difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you also to the paramedics, police, and ITU at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for their professionalism and companionship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask at this most difficult time that we be allowed to grieve the loss of our most precious daughter in peace and in privacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod bless Katie, forever in our hearts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djeison Rafael, aged 21, of Rosedale Avenue, Smethwick, was charged with Katie&#8217;s murder and appeared at Birmingham Magistrates Court today, where he was remanded into custody to await his next court appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Fox, 34, was taken to the hospital with a serious injury to her neck after she was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,12608,17756,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-566212","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-sandwell","16":"tag-smethwick","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115538729068089240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566212","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=566212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}