{"id":554907,"date":"2026-04-28T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:00:08","slug":"man-92-charged-with-murder-after-death-of-wife-87-in-exeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554907\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 92, charged with murder after death of wife, 87, in Exeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 92-year-old man has been charged with murder following the death of his wife, 87.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers from Devon and Cornwall Police were called to Millbrook Lane in Exeter, Devon, on 19 April following reports of a concern for welfare. Shirley Billam was found dead at the property. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laurence Billam, of Millbrook Lane, is due to appear at Exeter Magistrates&#8217; Court on Tuesday charged with her murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police confirmed the pair were husband and wife and said the family was being supported by specialist officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 92-year-old man has been charged with murder following the death of his wife, 87. Officers from Devon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-554907","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\/554907","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=554907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}