{"id":56876,"date":"2025-04-28T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T07:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/56876\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T07:35:13","slug":"police-appeal-after-attempted-robbery-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/56876\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal after attempted robbery in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> has launched the appeal and released an image of a man who it said it wanted to speak to following the attempted robbery on February 11.<\/p>\n<p>The incident saw a woman go to withdraw money from a cash point on Aston Lane and a man then subsequently tried to take it from her hands, leading to injuries including cuts and a broken finger.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0force<\/a> said the incident ended when the man ran off after a member of the public intervened and has asked for anyone with any information about the identity of the man to get in touch as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;We would like to speak to this man following an attempted robbery in Aston.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/62795898-b21e-4641-bb8d-abd1f3315610.png\"   alt=\"West Midlands Police said it would like to speak to this man following the incident. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>West Midlands Police said it would like to speak to this man following the incident. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A woman had gone to withdraw money from a cash point on Aston Lane when a man tried to take the money from her hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This led to injuries to her hands including cuts and a broken finger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He ran off when a member of the public intervened. The incident took place on February 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you recognise the man contact us via Live Chat on our website or by calling 101 quoting crime reference number 20\/142105\/25.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police has launched the appeal and released an image of a man who it said it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56877,"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-56876","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\/114414441275020545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876","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=56876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}