{"id":335795,"date":"2025-12-26T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335795\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:47:09","slug":"murder-arrest-after-death-of-woman-in-her-80s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335795\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder arrest after death of woman in her 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 80s died in an incident at a flat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police were called to the flat in Keepers Road, Devizes, at about 08:10 GMT after reports of a serious assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Despite efforts from the South Western Ambulance Service, the force confirmed that the victim died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A 63-year-old woman was arrested and has since been taken to hospital for treatment of injuries which are not thought to be life-changing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">DI Alan Smith, from the Major Crime Investigation Team, said: &#8220;This is a tragic incident in which an elderly woman has lost her life on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We have arrested a woman who is known to the victim and I can confirm we are not looking for anyone else in connection with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;A scene has been set up at the flat and an urgent investigation is being carried out, which will involve house-to-house enquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Local residents will see an increased policing presence over the coming days. If you have any concerns, or you have any information, please don&#8217;t hesitate to speak to one of our officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The force added that a cordon has been set up at the address and is likely to remain in place for the rest of Thursday and into Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 80s died in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-335795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335795","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=335795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}