{"id":655663,"date":"2026-06-24T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655663\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:04:10","slug":"victoria-square-sealed-off-live-as-teen-fights-for-life-after-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655663\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Square sealed off LIVE as teen fights for life after stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">From reporter Harry Leach at the scene:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The police cordon covers a huge section of Victoria Square, including the steps, the fountain and the very edges of New Street. Two police officers are stood guarding the scenes. An object within the cordon is hidden under a brown bag. Brummie Fiona, passing the scene on her way to work, told BirminghamLive that she feels like crime is \u201cout of control\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-24-at-080408jpeg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"The scene in Victoria Square this morning.\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">The scene in Victoria Square this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen a few things like this in the square before,\u201d she said. \u201cCrime feels like it\u2019s out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From reporter Harry Leach at the scene: The police cordon covers a huge section of Victoria Square, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44367,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-655663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-birmingham-city-centre","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\/655663","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=655663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}