{"id":480964,"date":"2026-03-17T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480964\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:51:12","slug":"man-found-dead-in-coventry-wheelie-bin-was-pillar-of-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480964\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in Coventry wheelie bin was &#8216;pillar of strength&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man found dead in a wheelie bin in a Coventry park has been named by police as 37-year-old Thomas Niven, whose family said their hearts were &#8220;in pieces&#8221; over the loss of their &#8220;pillar of strength&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His body was discovered after officers were called by a member of the public on Friday evening to Cash&#8217;s Park off Daimler Road in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man and a woman in their 40s, and a man in his 20s, were later arrested in Blackpool on suspicion of murder and assisting an offender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Police said investigations were continuing and Niven&#8217;s family were being supported by officers and updated on the inquiry&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man found dead in a wheelie bin in a Coventry park has been named by police as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480964","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\/480964","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=480964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}