{"id":528836,"date":"2026-04-13T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528836\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:04:08","slug":"man-dies-from-poisoning-in-leicester-as-police-swarm-busy-high-street-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528836\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies from &#8216;poisoning&#8217; in Leicester as police swarm busy high street | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died following an alleged poisoning in Leicester, with emergency services swarming a busy high street. Shortly before 1.45pm on Saturday, Leicestershire Police received a report that a man had been taken unwell at an address in the Clarendon Park area.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services rushed to the scene at Queen&#8217;s Road which was subsequently closed off. Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service and East Midlands Ambulance Service were reported to have attended the scene. According to police, a man was treated by paramedics and taken to hospital, but died a short time later. A 41-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of administering poison and has since been released on bail. A police investigation into the circumstances of the incident remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>A police statement in full read: &#8220;Shortly before 1.45pm on Saturday (11 April), a report was received that a man had been taken unwell at an address in the Clarendon Park area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The man was treated by paramedics at the scene and taken to hospital, but died a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Following initial enquiries by officers, a 41-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of administering poison. He has since been released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An investigation into the circumstances of the incident is continuing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died following an alleged poisoning in Leicester, with emergency services swarming a busy high street.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[183245,3846,59,57,58,183246,183247,183244,50,183248,183249,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-528836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-clarendon-park-poisoning","9":"tag-emergency-news","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-leicester-high-street","14":"tag-leicester-man-poisoned","15":"tag-leicester-poisoning","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-queens-road","18":"tag-queens-road-poisoning","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528836","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=528836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}