{"id":353885,"date":"2026-01-05T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353885\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:59:07","slug":"man-dies-after-being-detained-by-merseyside-police-in-bootle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353885\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being detained by Merseyside Police in Bootle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man died after collapsing while being detained by police on Merseyside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 59-year-old was stopped on Southport Road in Bootle at 12:24 GMT but became unconscious. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Merseyside Police said its officers administered CPR before taking him to hospital where he was declared dead an hour later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said it had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), as per usual procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died after collapsing while being detained by police on Merseyside. The 59-year-old was stopped on Southport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-353885","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\/353885","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=353885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}