{"id":581448,"date":"2025-11-20T00:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/581448\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:27:12","slug":"birmingham-man-and-woman-charged-with-murder-after-death-of-man-in-staffordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/581448\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham man and woman charged with murder after death of man in Staffordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Newton and Melanie James are set to appear at Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates Court on Thursday after being charged with murder, manslaughter and causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult.<\/p>\n<p>The charges follow the death of Rubin Blount, who died in hospital in Tamworth in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staffordshire.police.uk\/news\/news-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Staffordshire Police<\/a> said: &#8220;A man and a woman have been charged with the <a href=\"http:\/\/expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">murder<\/a> of a man in Tamworth in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kenneth Newton, 57, and Melanie James, 63, both of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Birmingham<\/a>, have been charged with murder, manslaughter and causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It comes after we responded to reports of concerns for the welfare of a man at 1.27pm on November 27, 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rubin Blount, then aged 28, who is the step brother of Kenneth, was taken to hospital but sadly died three days later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Newton and James will appear at the North Staffordshire Justice Centre tomorrow (Thursday, November 27).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenneth Newton and Melanie James are set to appear at Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates Court on Thursday after being charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,604,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-581448","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-staffordshire","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115579194245590049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581448","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=581448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}