{"id":7565,"date":"2015-06-22T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T11:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/22\/little-muhammad-recognised\/"},"modified":"2015-06-22T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T11:09:19","slug":"little-muhammad-recognised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/22\/little-muhammad-recognised\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Muhammad Recognised"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Brave seven-year-old hailed West Midlands Police&#8217;s youngest hero<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/little-muhammad-recognised-467x184.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nLittle Muhammad Ali has become West Midlands Police&#8217;s youngest hero after receiving an award from the force for bravery.&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/little-muhammad-recognised-250x200.jpg\"\/>The seven-year-old showed immense courage when he stood up to armed robbers who raided his Birmingham home.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>On October 2 of last year, the Balsall Heath youngster was awoken suddenly in the middle of the night by the sound of the front door being kicked open.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>When he went downstairs to investigate the noise, the scene which greeted him was one in which his mother was being harassed by seven masked men demanding the family&#8217;s Asian gold jewellery.  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>One of the raiders snatched up his baby brother, threatening to hurt the child if his mother didn&#8217;t comply with their demands.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Upon seeing this, Brave Muhammad ran to his mum&#8217;s side, shouting at the men to leave her alone &#8211; an action which detectives believe left the attackers stunned enough to flee the scene empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Chief Insp Phil Radbourne said: \u201cIt must have been scary but Muhammed\u2019s first instinct was to run towards the men and to protect his mum &#8211; his actions were extremely brave and undoubtedly left the burglars stunned.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoments later they left empty-handed and Muhammed, his mum and his baby brother all escaped unhurt, though they were understandably very shaken by the ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted we\u2019ve recognised Muhammed\u2019s bravery with a Chief Constable\u2019s Young Persons Award; he can be rightly proud of himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave seven-year-old hailed West Midlands Police&#8217;s youngest hero &#13; Little Muhammad Ali has become West Midlands Police&#8217;s youngest hero after receiving an award from the force for bravery.&#13; The seven-year-old showed immense courage when he stood up to armed robbers who raided his Birmingham home. &#13; On October 2 of last year, the Balsall Heath [&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-7565","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\/7565","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=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/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=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}