{"id":519053,"date":"2026-04-08T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519053\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:52:12","slug":"family-pays-tribute-to-man-fatally-injured-at-beaumont-leys-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519053\/","title":{"rendered":"Family pays tribute to man fatally injured at Beaumont Leys Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statement by Jimmy&#8217;s family said: &#8220;To say that the events of yesterday evening have changed our lives forever is an understatement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have lost a loving father, brother, partner and grandfather, our lives will never be the same again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jimmy has lived locally for nearly 20 years and was well known in the community, affectionately known to many as Spider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We would ask that people respect our privacy and give us the time to come to terms with what has happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Insp Kevin Hames, from the East Midlands Murder Investigation Team, said: &#8220;This is an extremely difficult time for Jimmy&#8217;s family and specialist officers continue to support them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you have any information about the incident, or the circumstances leading up to it, and have not yet spoken with officers, we would ask that you get in touch.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statement by Jimmy&#8217;s family said: &#8220;To say that the events of yesterday evening have changed our lives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519054,"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-519053","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\/519053","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=519053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}