{"id":488212,"date":"2026-03-21T20:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488212\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:59:07","slug":"londonderry-murder-investigation-launched-after-death-of-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488212\/","title":{"rendered":"Londonderry: Murder investigation launched after death of woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement Sinn F\u00e9in MLA Ciara Ferguson said there is &#8220;shock and devastation&#8221; across Derry after a woman was found dead in the Waterside area of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our heartfelt thoughts are with this woman&#8217;s loved ones as they face the unimaginable loss which this horrific crime has brought upon them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A young woman&#8217;s life was taken in the latest act of violence against women and girls and I appeal to anyone with information to bring it forward to the PSNI,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ferguson said: &#8220;The Executive&#8217;s Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls sets out how it aims to tackle this scourge in our society&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But we must all do more to confront the causes and cultures behind this violence and to do everything possible to bring the harm and abuse of women to an end.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement Sinn F\u00e9in MLA Ciara Ferguson said there is &#8220;shock and devastation&#8221; across Derry after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488212","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\/488212","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=488212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}