{"id":589039,"date":"2026-05-17T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589039\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:47:09","slug":"man-named-and-charged-after-death-of-durrington-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589039\/","title":{"rendered":"Man named and charged after death of Durrington woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  At around 7.50pm on Thursday, May 14, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/26108722.live-updates-police-arrest-worthing-man-murder\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">police were called to an address in Durrington Lane, Worthing,<\/a> following concerns for the welfare of a woman.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Emergency services attended the scene, where a 65-year-old woman was pronounced deceased.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On May 16, Alexandru Nechifor, 37, of Durrington Lane, Worthing was charged with murder and two counts of assaulting a police constable in the execution of his or her duty.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"The scene of the murder investigation in Durrington Lane\"\/>The scene of the murder investigation in Durrington Lane (Image: Eddie Mitchell)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He remains in custody ahead of his next court appearance at Worthing Magistrates&#8217; Court on May 18.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Enquiries are ongoing and it has been established that the victim and suspect were known to each other.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Detective Inspector Amanda Zinyama, from the Major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/crime_courts\/?ref=au\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crime<\/a> Team, said: \u201cThis remains fast moving investigation and our thoughts continue to be with the woman\u2019s loved ones at this extremely difficult time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  We understand this incident will have caused concern in the local community; however, we continue to believe it to be an isolated incident and we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the investigation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anyone with information which could help the investigation is asked to report it online or call 101 quoting Operation Bucklow.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At around 7.50pm on Thursday, May 14, police were called to an address in Durrington Lane, Worthing, following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589039","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\/589039","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=589039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}