{"id":13518,"date":"2016-04-15T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T10:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=13518"},"modified":"2016-04-15T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T11:01:36","slug":"man-charged-with-stabbing-pregnant-woman-appears-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/15\/man-charged-with-stabbing-pregnant-woman-appears-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged with Stabbing Pregnant Woman Appears in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Birmingham businessman has appeared in court after being charged with two counts of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>Babur Karama Raja, of Hollyfield Road, was said to have stabbed an expectant mother in a daylight attack in Sutton Coldfield.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old new mother, whose name cannot be mentioned, was left in critical condition in Sutton Coldfield town centre in the broad daylight attack.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, reportedly from Sutton, was understood to have been more than eight months pregnant at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>41-year-old Raja appeared in Birmingham Crown Court via video link from HM Prison in Birmingham and was told that his alleged victim and ex-partner was viewing proceedings from the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>During court proceedings, the defendant spoke only to give his name and confirm that he could see and understand the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued after the attack, the victim\u2019s family said: \u201cWe\u2019d all like to express our heartfelt thanks to everybody who helped her on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour fearlessness and selfless actions saved both their lives and we are overwhelming grateful to you all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Mark Wall QC has QC remanded Raja in custody until a further preparatory hearing on May 23<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary trial has been set for August 30<sup>th<\/sup> of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Birmingham businessman has appeared in court after being charged with two counts of attempted murder. Babur Karama Raja, of Hollyfield Road, was said to have stabbed an expectant mother in a daylight attack in Sutton Coldfield. The 40-year-old new mother, whose name cannot be mentioned, was left in critical condition in Sutton Coldfield town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518","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=13518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}