{"id":341558,"date":"2025-12-29T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341558\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:24:09","slug":"teenage-girl-grabbed-by-man-in-balaclava-in-banbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341558\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl &#8216;grabbed by man in balaclava&#8217; in Banbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Thames Valley Police said the girl was grabbed by an unknown man, before she managed to push him off and run away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The incident happened in the \u2018Spinney Woods\u2019 area on Bretch Hill in Banbury at 11.10am on December 8.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The male is thought to be aged 15-25 years old, white, around 5 foot 9 inches, was dressed in all black clothing, and was wearing a balaclava.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25726745.store-shopping-centre-close-new-year\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Store in shopping centre to close in new year<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On Monday (December 29), a spokesperson for the police force said: &#8220;Neighbouring houses to the area have already been asked to check their CCTV, however, we are now appealing to the wider area around Balmoral Avenue, Edmunds Road, Mascord Road and Bretch Hill.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;If you have any CCTV footage, please check it for activity between 10:30am and 12am on December 8.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;If you believe you may have witnessed this incident, or have any more information, please call 101 and give reference number 43250623553.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thames Valley Police said the girl was grabbed by an unknown man, before she managed to push him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-341558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341558","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=341558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}