Man dies of multiple stab wounds after attack in Hodge Hill

Sep 5 2008 By Mark Cowan and Nick McCarthy

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A MAN was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack in a house in Birmingham.

The 40-year-old victim, named by family and neighbours as Jeffrey Parry, suffered multiple stab wounds in the ambush at a house in Riddfield Road, Hodge Hill.

Paramedics found the fatally-injured victim lying in a pool of blood shortly after being called to the maisonette shortly after 9pm yesterday.

The man was taken to hospital but died from his injuries as doctors lost their battle to save him.

Detectives hunting the knifeman were today trying to trace three men who were seen hanging around near the address in the moments before the incident.

Eye witnesses have told officers they then saw them fleeing the scene towards Kempson Road.

A section of Riddfield Road today remained cordoned off with police tape as uniformed officers stood guard outside two addresses.

A blue police tent protected by tarpaulin was put up outside the front of a ground-floor maisonette on the road.

A police officer was also blocking the entrance to a three-storey block of flats on the opposite side of the road.

Police carried out house-to-house inquiries in the street and forensics specialists were expected to be back at the scene today to continue the search for clues.

One neighbour, a 41-year-old mum-of-two who asked not to be named, said: “The first I heard was the sirens, then there were police everywhere up and down the street and they came knocking on the door to ask if we’d seen or heard anything.

“You read about this kind of thing in the paper and on television but you don’t expect it a few doors up. We’ve never had anything like this around here before.”

A post-mortem examination was expected to take place later today.

Police said the man was yet to be formally identified.

A police spokesman said: “Officers are appealing for information after a man died following an incident in Bromford last night.

“Three men were seen in the vicinity of the address prior to the incident, and are believed to have left the scene on foot along Riddfield Road in the direction of Kempson Road.”

Police appealed for anyone with information to contact Stechford CID on 0845 113 5000 or the anonymous Crimestoppers hotline on 0800 555 111.