{"id":133979,"date":"2020-06-11T12:16:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T11:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=133979"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T11:17:48","slug":"baby-swan-purposely-kicked-by-jogger-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/baby-swan-purposely-kicked-by-jogger-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Swan Purposely Kicked By Jogger Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man who was jogging in London is being searched for by police after kicking two baby swans.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One if the swans luckily managed to escape to the water, but the others injuries were too severe &#8211; and has since died as a result of these injuries. Reports suggest the cruel culprit kicked the baby swans because he couldn\u2019t be bothered to swerve around them when jogging. But thankfully some actually decent people were in the park that day, and reported the incident to park rangers and identified the injured swan.<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Update?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Update<\/a> Sadly the Cygnet died this afternoon, his injures were too severe. The suspect was seen to kick another cygnet, which thankfully managed to escape to the water. The jogger had a logo on his running top and is balding.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Royal Parks Police (@MPSRoyal_Parks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MPSRoyal_Parks\/status\/1270746486343700481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The man is a jogger and is said to be balding and in his 60s, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun BCX0 SCXW30241649\">The police, who are looking for the man, said in a tweet: &#8220;The suspect is a white male, about 60 years old, 5ft 6in, grey hair, wearing black running shorts and vest<\/span><span class=\"TextRun BCX0 SCXW30241649\">. <\/span>We have just spoken to the Swan Sanctuary who have said, &#8216;Sadly he is still desperately poorly&#8217;. Thankfully he is in good hands.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134019 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/3BE67A2E-95B4-44FA-B48F-085D3A209E5E-300x270.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/3BE67A2E-95B4-44FA-B48F-085D3A209E5E-300x270.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/3BE67A2E-95B4-44FA-B48F-085D3A209E5E.jpeg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW30241649\">&#8220;We are doing all we <span class=\"TextRun BCX0 SCXW30241649\">can<\/span><span class=\"TextRun BCX0 SCXW30241649\"> but it doesn&#8217;t look hopeful. Thank goodness there were some kind people who picked him up and reported the incident to the park rangers.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The incident happened on Monday in Richmond park on Monday, and police are appealing for witnesses or anyone who may have information regarding the shocking incident.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-96eolq-margin-Advert\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was jogging in London is being searched for by police after kicking two baby swans.\u00a0 One if the swans luckily managed to escape to the water, but the others injuries were too severe &#8211; and has since died as a result of these injuries. Reports suggest the cruel culprit kicked the baby&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":134019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[556,1727,102,997,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-133979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-crime-news","tag-london","tag-london-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134021,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133979\/revisions\/134021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}