{"id":451626,"date":"2026-03-01T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451626\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:53:09","slug":"two-more-boys-charged-with-murder-over-smethwick-mosque-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451626\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more boys charged with murder over Smethwick mosque stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two more boys have been charged with murder after a teenager was fatally stabbed outside a mosque.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zeeshan Afzal, 18, was discovered with serious injuries on Oldbury Road in Smethwick, following disorder on 20 February. He died shortly afterwards. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 16 and 17-year-old teenagers, who cannot be legally named, are set to appear at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 17-year-old boy who was previously charged with Afzal&#8217;s murder remains in custody, West Midlands Police has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two more boys have been charged with murder after a teenager was fatally stabbed outside a mosque. Zeeshan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451626","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\/451626","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=451626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}