{"id":500300,"date":"2026-03-28T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500300\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:39:08","slug":"met-police-investigate-stabbing-death-near-westminster-abbey-knife-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500300\/","title":{"rendered":"Met police investigate stabbing death near Westminster Abbey | Knife crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Metropolitan police have launched a murder investigation after a man was stabbed in central London on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Officers were called to Abbey Orchard Street, Westminster, at 10.17pm after receiving reports that a man had been stabbed. The scene of the incident is near Parliament Square and Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The man, 26, was given first aid by the responding officers before being taken to an ambulance, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police said the man\u2019s next of kin had been informed, but that no arrests had yet been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Det Supt Dean Lanfear said: \u201cWe understand the concern this incident may cause. Officers are on patrol in the area to provide a visual deterrent and to offer reassurance to residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIf anyone saw or has any information about what happened last night, please contact police. Even the slightest bit of information can help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Metropolitan police have launched a murder investigation after a man was stabbed in central London on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-500300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500300","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=500300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}