{"id":12478,"date":"2016-02-15T13:09:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=12478"},"modified":"2016-02-15T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:09:25","slug":"two-men-to-appear-in-court-over-murder-of-warehouse-owner-akhtar-javeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/15\/two-men-to-appear-in-court-over-murder-of-warehouse-owner-akhtar-javeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Men to Appear in Court over Murder of Warehouse Owner Akhtar Javeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Two men have been charged with the murder of soft drink firm owner Akhtar Javeed. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>26-year-old business-man Surjat Mistry from Leicester and 18-year-old student, Lemar Wali have been charged with murder, possession of a firearm and conspiracy to commit robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The two offenders are set to appear in Birmingham Magistrates Court on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A 19-year-old woman, who was also arrested on suspicion of aiding an alleged suspect, was later released on police bail pending further enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Akhtar Javeed, 56, along with three employees, was tied up by masked men on February 4<sup>th<\/sup>, after they raided his Warehouse based in Rea Street South.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was then led away by the two gunmen before being shot in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Det Chief Insp Martin Slevin, of West Midland&#8217;s Police, said: \u201cI continue to appeal to people to come forward, I firmly believe that someone out there may still have information that could help our investigation and I am urging them to call me or one of my team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the occurrence should call West Midlands Police on 101, or alternatively, contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been charged with the murder of soft drink firm owner Akhtar Javeed. 26-year-old business-man Surjat Mistry from Leicester and 18-year-old student, Lemar Wali have been charged with murder, possession of a firearm and conspiracy to commit robbery. The two offenders are set to appear in Birmingham Magistrates Court on Monday morning. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}