{"id":25518,"date":"2018-01-31T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T13:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=25518"},"modified":"2018-01-31T13:50:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T13:50:15","slug":"man-found-beaten-death-bedsit-small-heath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/31\/man-found-beaten-death-bedsit-small-heath\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Found Beaten to Death at Bedsit in Small Heath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have launched a murder investigation after a man was found &#8216;beaten to death&#8217; at a bedsit in Mansel Road, Small Heath on Tuesday 30 January<\/p>\n<p>Police say a man was found beaten and unconscious at a bedsit property in the road, which is off the busy Coventry Road and later died of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Chief Inspector Edward Foster, from West Midlands Police, said: \u201cClearly we are at an early stage of the enquiry, but we understand there was a fight inside the address that led to a man suffering fatal injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have identified some significant witnesses and are conducting quick-time enquiries, but we are keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time and heard a disturbance or perhaps someone running from the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The murder scene is just yards from Small Heath Park and off the busy A45 Coventry Road.<\/p>\n<p>A police van is blocking the entrance to Mansel Road, close to the George and Dragon pub and the Alaturka restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Police are calling for witnesses who may have heard a disturbance or seen anyone running from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call West Midlands Police on 101, quoting log number 2151 30\/1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have launched a murder investigation after a man was found &#8216;beaten to death&#8217; at a bedsit in Mansel Road, Small Heath on Tuesday 30 January Police say a man was found beaten and unconscious at a bedsit property in the road, which is off the busy Coventry Road and later died of injuries. Detective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[753,751,752],"class_list":["post-25518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-mansel-road","tag-small-heath","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}