{"id":555263,"date":"2026-04-28T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555263\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:30:14","slug":"man-and-woman-arrested-as-police-raid-preston-funeral-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555263\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and woman arrested as police raid Preston funeral directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two people have been arrested on suspicion of fraud after a funeral directors was raided by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire Police said its investigation of Martin&#8217;s funeral directors in Preston was &#8220;focused solely on potential financial irregularities relating to the business&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said earlier this month it was contacted with &#8220;concerns about some of the practices&#8221; at the firm but had &#8220;not found anything untoward in respect of the treatment or storage of peoples&#8217; loved ones&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three addresses in Preston and Longridge were searched and a man in his 60s and a woman in her 50s, both from Preston, were arrested on suspicion of fraud by false representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been arrested on suspicion of fraud after a funeral directors was raided by police. Lancashire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-555263","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\/555263","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=555263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}