{"id":856019,"date":"2026-03-28T12:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/856019\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:07:16","slug":"police-searching-in-derby-for-missing-birmingham-city-fan-paul-pike-find-items-belonging-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/856019\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching in Derby for missing Birmingham City fan Paul Pike find items belonging to him"},"content":{"rendered":"

An appeal for footage has been issued after items belonging to Paul were found near a cycle path\"Paul<\/p>\n

Paul Pike has not been seen since Saturday, March 21<\/p>\n

Items believed to belong to missing football fan Paul Pike have been found in Derby after almost a week of searches.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old, who is from Birmingham, has been missing since Saturday, March 21, after travelling to Derby for the Derby County<\/a> v Birmingham City match.<\/p>\n

He was outside Pride Park Stadium at about 12.43pm, before being seen walking alongside the riverside path close to the Millennium Way.<\/p>\n

The teenager is thought to have entered the ground, but left shortly after.<\/p>\n

Derbyshire police is now appealing to cyclists who may have footage of the cycle path at around 12.45pm to come forward, after a search found some items believed to be Paul’s.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, March 26, fans from both cities and residents met outside Pride Park <\/a>after calls to help with the search were posted on social media.<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul is described as white, around 6ft 1 in tall, of a slim build, with short dark brown hair and a beard.<\/p>\n

He was last seen wearing a Sergio Tacchino tracksuit top, grey on top and black on the bottom, a Burberry patterned baseball cap, a navy blue polo shirt, and jeans.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information about Paul’s whereabouts should call police on 101, quoting the reference 1095 of 24 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An appeal for footage has been issued after items belonging to Paul were found near a cycle path…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,225234,393,4884,163514,16,15],"class_list":["post-856019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-derbyshire-police","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-pride-park","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116306722647215161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856019","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=856019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}