{"id":70882,"date":"2025-05-03T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T10:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70882\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T10:16:10","slug":"police-update-after-boy-13-attacked-in-birmingham-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70882\/","title":{"rendered":"Police update after boy, 13, attacked in Birmingham park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teenager was rushed to hospital with serious injuries<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_JS365986566.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Kingstanding Circle Park sealed off on Monday April 14(Image: Anthony Heaney)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A 13-year-old boy rushed to hospital after being attacked in a city park is recovering from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The teenager was assaulted in Kingstanding Circle Park, a play area located inside Wheeldon Recreation Ground, at around 5.30pm on Monday, April 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He suffered <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/west-midlands-police-update-birmingham-31427687\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">serious injuries in the attack<\/a> and was rushed to hospital by land ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/boy-rushed-hospital-after-attack-31425759\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Boy rushed to hospital after attack in Birmingham park &#8211; full ambulance statement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police later said his injuries <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/boy-rushed-hospital-after-attack-31425759\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">were not life-threatening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">No further details were provided on the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In a new update, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> said the youngster was &#8220;continuing to recover from his injuries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The force previously said: &#8220;We\u2019re investigating after a boy, aged 13, was assaulted in Kingstanding on April 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Don&#8217;t miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the BirminghamLive newsletter here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We were called to Kingstanding Circle Park at around 5.30pm and the boy was taken to hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Our investigation is at an early stage and detectives are speaking to witnesses and reviewing CCTV from around the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A West Midlands Ambulance spokesperson told BirminghamLive: &#8220;We were called to reports of an assault on Kingstanding Road in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"BirminghamLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> just after 5.50pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;An ambulance was sent to the scene where, on arrival, crews found a boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;He was treated for serious injuries and conveyed to hospital under emergency road conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Anyone with information about this incident should contact police by calling 101, quoting crime reference number 20\/209169\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teenager was rushed to hospital with serious injuriesKingstanding Circle Park sealed off on Monday April 14(Image: Anthony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,19657,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-70882","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-kingstanding-and-oscott","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114443385949143206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70882","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=70882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}