{"id":378589,"date":"2026-01-19T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378589\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:49:11","slug":"smestow-academy-in-wolverhampton-closes-after-mans-body-found-in-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378589\/","title":{"rendered":"Smestow Academy in Wolverhampton closes after man&#8217;s body found in grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police are investigating after the body of a man was found in the grounds of a Wolverhampton school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency crews were called to Smestow Academy at about 10:40 GMT following the discovery, West Midlands Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The school, which has pupils aged from 11 to 18, closed as inquiries begin to confirm the man&#8217;s identity and the circumstances around his death, the force added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a post on social media, the school confirmed it was shutting from 13:00 GMT &#8220;due to an unconnected police incident&#8221;, while police asked anyone with information to get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after the body of a man was found in the grounds of a Wolverhampton school.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-378589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378589","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=378589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}