{"id":944848,"date":"2026-05-07T23:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944848\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:45:48","slug":"man-sexually-assaulted-near-soho-road-in-birmingham-as-police-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944848\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sexually assaulted near Soho Road in Birmingham as police appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have issued an image of a man detectives want to identify after the male victim was sexually assaulted in a residential street near Soho Road<\/p>\n

17:43, 07 May 2026Updated 18:52, 07 May 2026<\/p>\n

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Police want to track down this man after a sexual assault near Birmingham’s Soho Road(Image: West Midlands Police )<\/p>\n

Police have issued an image of a man officers want to track down after a sexual assault near Birmingham’s<\/a> Soho Road.<\/p>\n

The victim, a man, was sexually assaulted on Hamilton Road in Handsworth<\/a> at around 8.30am on Tuesday, March 17.<\/p>\n

West Midlands Police<\/a> tonight issued an image of a second man detectives want to identify as part of their enquiries.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Birmingham man wanted after girl, 9, attacked by dog leaving her with ‘deep puncture wounds’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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He was pictured with dark hair, a beard, and with his hood up.<\/p>\n

Investigators have so far been unable to locate or identify him.<\/p>\n

The force is appealing to the public for help tracking him down.<\/p>\n

A force spokesperson said: “Do you know who this is?<\/p>\n

“We want to speak with him after a man was sexually assaulted on Hamilton Road, Handsworth<\/a>, at around 8.30am on 17 March.<\/p>\n

“We have carried out enquiries including reviewing CCTV footage but have been unable to identify him.<\/p>\n

“If you can help with our investigation you can contact us via Live Chat on our website or by calling 101 quoting crime reference number 20\/184139\/26.<\/p>\n

“You can also make an anonymous report to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.”<\/p>\n

If there is a story you think our journalists should be looking into, we want to hear from you<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email us on newsdesk@birminghammail.co.uk to get in contact with a reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have issued an image of a man detectives want to identify after the male victim was sexually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,13844,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-944848","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-handsworth-and-soho","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116535959967635877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944848","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=944848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}