{"id":488821,"date":"2026-03-22T06:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T06:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:01:18","slug":"man-in-sixties-left-shaken-after-unprovoked-attack-near-chichester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488821\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in sixties left &#8216;shaken&#8217; after unprovoked attack near Chichester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The incident happened between 5.30pm and 6pm on Saturday March 7 at the level crossing in Stein Road, Southbourne near Chichester.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The victim, a 69-year-old man, had walked from The Travellers Joy public house along Main Road and north up Stein Road towards the station when he was approached from behind.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The assault on him was unprovoked and left him shaken, but he did not require hospital treatment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The suspect also shouted abuse at a family with a young child and two dogs. Officers are keen to speak with the family.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The suspect is described as being white, about 5\u20199\u201d with light facial hair, wearing a baseball cap and carrying a dark rucksack. He left the area via an alleyway running behind the north platform at Southbourne station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Witnesses or anyone with information, including anyone with CCTV, mobile phone, or dashcam footage from the area at the time, is asked to report it to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sussex.police.uk\/contact\/af\/contact-us-forms\/provide-more-information-to-be-added-to-a-crime-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sussex Police online\">Sussex Police online<\/a>\u00a0by quoting serial 751 of 08\/03.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident happened between 5.30pm and 6pm on Saturday March 7 at the level crossing in Stein Road,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488821","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\/488821","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=488821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}