{"id":573601,"date":"2026-05-08T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573601\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:25:08","slug":"family-tribute-to-much-loved-man-as-murder-investigation-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573601\/","title":{"rendered":"Family tribute to &#8216;much-loved&#8217; man as murder investigation begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A murder investigation has been launched after a &#8220;much-loved&#8221; man was found dead on the roof garden of a block of flats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The body of 54-year-old Anthony Clemmings, known as Tony, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgep78gpy9zo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was discovered by a member of the public<\/a> at the building on Redcliff Street, Bristol, shortly before 08:20 BST on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Avon and Somerset Police said his death was now being treated as a murder investigation, led by detectives from the force&#8217;s Major Crime Investigation Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clemmings&#8217; family said he was a &#8220;lovely man to all those that truly knew him&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A murder investigation has been launched after a &#8220;much-loved&#8221; man was found dead on the roof garden of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573601","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\/573601","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=573601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}