{"id":697205,"date":"2026-01-15T07:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697205\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:56:15","slug":"court-hears-mothers-tearful-999-call-after-tower-block-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697205\/","title":{"rendered":"Court hears mother&#8217;s tearful 999 call after tower block fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The jury was told that Herring was convicted of coercive and controlling behaviour against the teenager following a previous trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prosecutor Jamie Scott said the accused had isolated the victim from her family, inspected her phone, assaulted her and previously locked her in his bedroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The teenager was airlifted to hospital, required a blood transfusion and assistance to breathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When questioned by police if her black eyes were new, Herring replied &#8220;no, she&#8217;s had them for two or three days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her left lung had collapsed and she sustained multiple fractures around her ribs, pelvis and spinal bones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prosecutor said the defendant claimed they &#8220;got into an argument about cheating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Herring claimed the victim threatened &#8220;I&#8217;ll jump out the window, then&#8221;, and said he tried to grab her before she &#8220;leant to the side then dropped herself out the window&#8221;, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jury was told that Herring was convicted of coercive and controlling behaviour against the teenager following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-697205","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-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697205","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=697205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}