{"id":252059,"date":"2025-11-08T23:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252059\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:09:07","slug":"man-charged-with-attempted-murder-over-birmingham-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252059\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with attempted murder over Birmingham stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A man has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in the neck in Birmingham city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Djeison Rafael, 21, is accused of the attack outside the Bullring shopping centre, and is also charged with two counts of assault and possession of a blade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The woman was attacked on Smallbrook Queensway, shortly before 21:00 GMT on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The victim, in her 30s, is said to be in a critical condition in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">West Midlands Police said Mr Rafael, who they described as a black British national, had been remanded to appear before magistrates in Birmingham on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a statement, the force said: &#8220;We are continuing our inquiries and are keen to hear from anyone who knows more about what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The suspect was wearing an &#8220;all grey tracksuit, black hat, trainers and rucksack at the time of the incident&#8221;, the statement adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Throughout Saturday a police tent remained on the pavement, just outside the Bullring and opposite the main entrance to New Street, and a cordon remained in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in the neck in Birmingham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-252059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}