{"id":674290,"date":"2026-07-05T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674290\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:08:09","slug":"police-appeal-over-assault-as-victim-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674290\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal over assault as victim in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The victim is in a critical condition in a local hospital after being attacked just outside the station on Friday (July 3).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He was repeatedly punched and stamped on by two men while he lay on the ground during the assault just before 8pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/news\/26253145.air-ambulance-responds-reports-serious-assault-foregate-street\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Air ambulance responds after reports of serious assault at Foregate Street<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>STATION: Have you seen this man? (Image: British Transport Police)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  British Transport Police officers and paramedics attended the scene, and the victim was taken to a local hospital where he remains in a critical condition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A small area outside the train station was cordoned off as enquiries were carried out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bystanders at the scene reported seeing someone on the floor being taken away by ambulance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>IMAGE: Detectives are appealing for information about this man (Image: British Transport Police)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The air ambulance flew over Worcester before landing at the Pitchcroft during the incident, and the helicopter&#8217;s road back-up vehicle was at Foregate Street.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Detectives believe the men in the CCTV images may have information that could assist their ongoing investigation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  *Anyone who recognises either of them is asked to text 61016 or call 0800 40 50 40, quoting reference 642 of July 3.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Information can be given anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim is in a critical condition in a local hospital after being attacked just outside the station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674290","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\/674290","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=674290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}