{"id":451429,"date":"2026-03-01T04:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451429\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T04:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:53:14","slug":"two-teenagers-charged-with-murder-after-stabbing-outside-smethwick-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451429\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teenagers charged with murder after stabbing outside Smethwick mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zeshan Afzal, 18, was fatally stabbed on Oldbury Road last Friday (Feb 20)\"Two<\/p>\n

Two teenagers were charged with murder after a stabbing outside the Oldbury Jamia Mosque last Friday (Feb 20)<\/p>\n

Two people have been charged with murder after a teenager was stabbed to death outside a Smethwick<\/a> mosque.<\/p>\n

Last Friday (Feb 20), Zeshan Afzal was found with serious injuries following ‘disorder’ on Oldbury Road shortly before 9pm.<\/p>\n

The 18-year old was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n

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The boys, aged 16 and 17, can\u2019t be named for legal reasons and will appear at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court on Monday ( March 2).<\/p>\n

A 17-year-old boy charged with murder appeared at court earlier this week.<\/p>\n

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He has been remanded in custody until his next court appearance.<\/p>\n

Enquires are continuing and West Midlands Police<\/a> urge anyone who has not yet spoken to us to come forward.<\/p>\n

You can contact police on 101 quoting log number 4896 of February 20.<\/p>\n

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Email us on newsdesk@birminghammail.co.uk to get in contact with a reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zeshan Afzal, 18, was fatally stabbed on Oldbury Road last Friday (Feb 20) Two teenagers were charged with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[924,59,57,58,50,33369,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-451429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-smethwick","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451429","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=451429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}