{"id":84022,"date":"2025-05-08T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84022\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:33:09","slug":"boy-17-sexually-assaulted-on-bench-by-male-stranger-in-broad-daylight-with-cops-releasing-cctv-in-urgent-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84022\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 17, sexually assaulted on bench by male stranger in broad daylight with cops releasing CCTV in urgent hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A BOY was sexually assaulted on a bench by a male stranger &#8211; with cops releasing CCTV as part of their urgent enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed 17-year-old victim was sitting in an underpass in Coventry shortly before 8am on February 3, when he was approached by a man.<\/p>\n<p>He proceeded to kiss the teenager without his consent, said cops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/west-midlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police<\/a> have now released a CCTV image of a man they wish to speak to in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the force said: &#8220;We are hoping someone might recognise this man, or might have seen what happened and be able to help with our enquiries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They added that officers had &#8220;carried out CCTV and witness enquiries in the area nearby&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to contact West Midlands Police via 101 or Live Chat quoting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crime<\/a> number 20\/143599\/25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Surveillance image of a man walking, wearing a yellow shirt and gray pants.\" height=\"721\" width=\"813\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imagetsyw8.jpg\" data-caption=\"West Midlands Police have released CCTV images of this man\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imagetsyw8.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police have released CCTV images of this man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BOY was sexually assaulted on a bench by a male stranger &#8211; with cops releasing CCTV as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[855,26190,188,12,529,820,16,15,7858],"class_list":{"0":"post-84022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-coventry","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-section-newsuk-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-west-midlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114471056402956138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84022","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=84022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}