{"id":589709,"date":"2025-11-24T00:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589709\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T00:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:08:19","slug":"appeal-to-trace-five-men-after-man-and-woman-injured-in-birmingham-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589709\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to trace five men after man and woman injured in Birmingham assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> have released CCTV images of five men they wish to talk to following an assault in Billesley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the scene of Wheelers Lane, Billesley, at around 1am on November 12 to reports that a man and woman had been assaulted.<\/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\/68c39f1a-e1d7-47f6-b37f-bdb61043e839.jpg\"   alt=\"Do you recognise these five men? Police wish to talk to them following an assault in Birmingham\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Do you recognise these five men? Police wish to talk to them following an assault in Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the man and woman had not received any life-changing injuries, with both being assessed by West Midlands Ambulance Service at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are now carrying out an investigation into the incident, and have spoken to a number of people around the area as part of their enquiries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who recognises the men pictured, or has any information on the assault, is asked to contact West Midlands Police via their 101 number, quoting the log reference number 20\/440170\/25.<\/p>\n<p>A force spokesperson said: &#8220;Recognise these men?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d like to speak to them after a man and woman were assaulted in Billesley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re investigating reports of a group causing disorder and anti-social behaviour on Wheelers Lane at around 1am on Wednesday, 12 November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The man and woman were assaulted during this, but thankfully their injuries were not life-changing, and they were assessed by ambulance colleagues at the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police have released CCTV images of five men they wish to talk to following an assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589710,"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-589709","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\/115601769785490730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589709","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=589709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}