{"id":6280,"date":"2013-12-20T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/12\/20\/motorist-charged-over-traffic-warden-hammer-attack\/"},"modified":"2013-12-20T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:58:06","slug":"motorist-charged-over-traffic-warden-hammer-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/20\/motorist-charged-over-traffic-warden-hammer-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorist charged over traffic warden hammer attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>The 26-year-old Arafat Akhtar arrested<\/h3>\n<div>A\u00a0motorist has been charged with attacking a traffic warden with a hammer in a row over a parking ticket.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Arafat Akhtar, from Lea Road in Sparkhill, is accused of assaulting the enforcement officer as he attempted to issue the Honda Civic driver a ticket in Great Hampton Street, Hockley, on Tuesday afternoon (Dec 17).<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 26-year-old was arrested by West Midlands Police officers at 6.40pm on Tuesday and, after questioning, was charged with possessing an offensive weapon in public and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He has been conditionally bailed to appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court on January 8; as part of his bail conditions he must live and sleep at his home address, report to a police station three times a week, and not enter Great Hampton Street.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 46-year-old traffic warden required hospital treatment for a head injury.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 26-year-old Arafat Akhtar arrested A\u00a0motorist has been charged with attacking a traffic warden with a hammer in a row over a parking ticket. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; Arafat Akhtar, from Lea Road in Sparkhill, is accused of assaulting the enforcement officer as he attempted to issue the Honda Civic driver a ticket in Great Hampton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","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=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}