{"id":647075,"date":"2025-12-21T22:05:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/647075\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:05:27","slug":"teenager-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-after-woman-found-dead-in-oldbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/647075\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager arrested on suspicion of murder after woman found dead in Oldbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 19-year-old man remains in police custody\"AA general view of Barncroft Road in Oldbury(Image: Google)<\/p>\n

A teenager has been arrested after a woman was found dead at an address in Oldbury.<\/p>\n

The sad discovery was made in the early hours of this morning (Sunday, December 21) on Barncroft Road.<\/p>\n

Medics tried to help the woman, who was unresponsive, and she was confirmed dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

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A 19-year-old man has since been arrested on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n

Chief Inspector Imran Mirza from Sandwell<\/a> Police, said: \u201cOur thoughts remain with the woman\u2019s family at this awful time who are being supported by specialist officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a fast-moving investigation, and we have one person in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are reviewing CCTV footage, carrying out house to house enquiries and examining forensic evidence.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will see more officers around who will be in the area to offer reassurance to the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for West Midlands Police<\/a> said: “An investigation has been launched following the death of a woman in Oldbury.<\/p>\n

“We were called to an address in Barncroft Road in the early hours of this morning (21 Dec) where a woman was found unresponsive.<\/p>\n

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“Sadly, she was confirmed dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

“A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.”<\/p>\n

They continued: “Anyone with information is asked to get in touch by calling 101 quoting log 400 of 21 December.<\/p>\n

“Information can also be passed to the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old man remains in police custodyA general view of Barncroft Road in Oldbury(Image: Google) A teenager has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,705,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-647075","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-oldbury","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115759830789169872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647075","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=647075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}