{"id":28129,"date":"2019-01-17T13:14:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28129"},"modified":"2019-01-17T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:21:09","slug":"petrol-station-attack-with-baseball-bats-and-machete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/17\/petrol-station-attack-with-baseball-bats-and-machete\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol Station Attack with Baseball Bats and Machete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A vicious thug who attacked his victim with a baseball bat and machete on a petrol station forecourt has been jailed for almost eight years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The attack took place last year May as the victim walked along Park Lane East, in Tipton, when a gang in a red Audi A3 attempted to drive at him. The victim jumped into a passing Vauxhall Corsa and was chased onto a petrol station forecourt in Dudley Port, Tipton, where it was attacked with baseball bats.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people who were in the car got away, the man who was targeted was left needing surgery after taking a beating to his head and having his legs slashed with the machete.<\/p>\n<p>After a police operation and a media appeal Mohammed Waqas, of College Road, Saltley, was identified.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV of the attack showed Waqas leaning on a car to steady himself and, once identified, a fingerprint match sealed his fate. The 27-year-old was jailed for seven years and 10 months when he appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Wednesday 9 January after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent, breaching an anti-social behaviour order and driving without a licence or insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vicious thug who attacked his victim with a baseball bat and machete on a petrol station forecourt has been jailed for almost eight years. The attack took place last year May as the victim walked along Park Lane East, in Tipton, when a gang in a red Audi A3 attempted to drive at him. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[1847,1846,1832],"class_list":["post-28129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-dudley-port","tag-petrol-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28129","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=28129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}