{"id":29979,"date":"2025-11-10T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29979"},"modified":"2025-11-10T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:34:09","slug":"woman-stabbed-in-birmingham-bus-stop-attack-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/11\/10\/woman-stabbed-in-birmingham-bus-stop-attack-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman stabbed in Birmingham bus stop attack dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman who was stabbed in the neck in an unprovoked attack at a bus stop in Birmingham has died, police have confirmed.<\/b><\/p>\n

Katie Fox, 34, was targeted in Smallbrook Queensway, just outside the Bullring shopping centre, shortly before 21:00 GMT, on Friday.<\/p>\n

Djeison Rafael, 21, appeared before Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday, charged over the attack.<\/p>\n

He was previously accused of attempted murder but following Ms Fox’s death the charge has been updated to murder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 21-year-old, of Rosedale Avenue, Smethwick, is also charged with two counts of causing actual bodily harm on 27 October and 7 November, possession of a Stanley blade and assaulting a detention escort officer.<\/p>\n

Rafael, who appeared before District Judge John Bristow, was told to be quiet as he interrupted the six-minute hearing multiple times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It happened just outside the Bullring shopping centre on Friday<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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The force said officers would be around the city centre on Monday to offer reassurance, and investigators were supporting the victim’s family.<\/p>\n

Detectives are appealing for witnesses who may have seen Mr Rafael, who is described as a Black British national, and is believed to have been wearing an all-grey tracksuit, black hat, trainers and rucksack.<\/p>\n

The stabbing happened outside the Bullring shopping centre, opposite the main entrance to Birmingham New Street station.<\/p>\n

Police said they were treating it as an “unprovoked attack” and Det Insp James Nix said they were working to understand why it happened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police said they believed the attack was “unprovoked”<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Shalini Doal, who works nearby,\u00a0told the BBC she saw the emergency response\u00a0<\/a>when she finished her shift at about 22:00 on Friday.<\/p>\n

She described the scene has “quite chaotic” and said she and her colleagues were worried for their safety.<\/p>\n

Ashley Birks, 25, from Stoke-on-Trent, said he came to Birmingham fairly regularly to see his girlfriend who lives in the city, and was concerned about what had happened.<\/p>\n

“It makes me worried for my girlfriend,” he said.<\/p>\n

“She doesn’t drive and works at all of the big music venues… and to think something completely unprovoked [happened], you know, it’s horrible.”<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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