{"id":29812,"date":"2019-08-01T12:38:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=29812"},"modified":"2019-08-01T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:46:06","slug":"pensioner-dragged-to-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/01\/pensioner-dragged-to-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioner Dragged To The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A pensioner was flung to the ground by a mugger who made a grab for her handbag and left the victim with a fractured shoulder.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 270px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-29812-1\" width=\"270\" height=\"400\" autoplay preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Incident_this_morning_just_off_SohoRoad_where_an_elderly_Asian_lady_had_her...-2429834447301737.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Incident_this_morning_just_off_SohoRoad_where_an_elderly_Asian_lady_had_her...-2429834447301737.mp4\">https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Incident_this_morning_just_off_SohoRoad_where_an_elderly_Asian_lady_had_her...-2429834447301737.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The horrific attack took place broad daylight attack on Tuesday 30 July.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage captured from a house near the scene shows the moment the OAP walks along Stafford Road,\u00a0Handsworth\u00a0and is closely followed by the hooded thug.<\/p>\n<p>He then lunges for the bag, pulling it from the victim\u2019s grip and dragging her to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police\u00a0have issued an urgent appeal to trace the thief, who is thought to have later discarded the stolen bank cards that were in the bag into a wheelie bin.<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police appeal reads: &#8220;Know who this man is? We need to speak to him after a robber targeted a woman aged 72 in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was walking along Stafford Road, Handsworth, when a man made a grab for her handbag just after 11am yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was pulled to the ground and suffered a fractured bone in her shoulder as the thief made off with cash, bank cards, house keys and a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve released CCTV footage of the shocking attack in an attempt to identify the man responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Dave Bebb said: &#8220;The victim was flung to the ground then left there injured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are determined to catch this robber and are keen to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time, or saw him either before or after the attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can contact police via Live Chat at west-midlands.pnn.police.uk between 8am and midnight, or call 101 anytime.<\/p>\n<p>Quote crime reference number 20BW\/180608Q\/19. Or call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pensioner was flung to the ground by a mugger who made a grab for her handbag and left the victim with a fractured shoulder. The horrific attack took place broad daylight attack on Tuesday 30 July. CCTV footage captured from a house near the scene shows the moment the OAP walks along Stafford Road,\u00a0Handsworth\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,112],"tags":[264,1407,2251,2252,1356],"class_list":["post-29812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham","tag-handsworth","tag-pensioner","tag-sgt-dave-bebb","tag-west-midlands-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29812","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=29812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}