{"id":194715,"date":"2025-10-12T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194715\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:37:08","slug":"woman-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-after-death-of-two-children-in-stafford-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194715\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested on suspicion of murder after death of two children in Stafford | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 43-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of two children in Stafford.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a home on Corporation Street at around 7.30am on Sunday by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/west-midlands-5864\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Midlands<\/a> Ambulance Service.<\/p>\n<p>Two children were pronounced dead at the scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/staffordshire-6613\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Staffordshire<\/a> Police said.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Kirsty Oldfield said: &#8220;We are working hard to understand more about what happened leading up to these two children tragically losing their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We ask that people do not speculate at this stage as it is distressing for family and friends and could hinder our inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We understand that this incident may cause concern in the local community. We don&#8217;t believe there is wider threat to the public at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/lostprophets-singer-ian-watkins-dies-after-attack-in-prison-13448665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two arrested over Lostprophets singer&#8217;s death<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/food-delivery-drones-could-soon-be-roaming-british-skies-13447794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How drones are delivering food in Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old woman, who is from the Stafford area, remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The force has not confirmed the ages of the two children. Their next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 43-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of two children in Stafford.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-194715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194715","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=194715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}