{"id":55480,"date":"2024-10-05T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55480"},"modified":"2024-10-05T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T08:47:33","slug":"btp-appeal-after-sexual-assault-on-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55480","title":{"rendered":"BTP appeal after sexual assault on West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Transport Police have launched an appeal for information to help in their investigation over a sexual assault on board the West Midlands Metro on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> August.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At around 1220 on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> August a man sexually assaulted a woman before getting off the tram at Wednesbury. It is thought the assault took place between Black Lake and Wednesbury.<\/p>\n<p>Officers have released an image of a man they wish to speak to in regards to the incident &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.btp.police.uk\/news\/btp\/news\/appeals\/cctv-image-released-following-sexual-assault--west-bromwich--wednesbury\/\">https:\/\/www.btp.police.uk\/news\/btp\/news\/appeals\/cctv-image-released-following-sexual-assault&#8211;west-bromwich&#8211;wednesbury\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who recognises the man is asked to contact the BTP by texting 61016 or calling 0800 40 50 40 and quoting reference 189 on 7 August. Alternatively, Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Transport Police have launched an appeal for information to help in their investigation over a sexual assault on board the West Midlands Metro on 3rd August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55481,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55480\/revisions\/55481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}