{"id":613346,"date":"2026-05-31T07:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:55:14","slug":"murder-probe-launched-in-cornwall-after-woman-in-her-80s-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613346\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder probe launched in Cornwall after woman in her 80s dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a woman in her 80s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Cornwall Police said the woman was found dead in a property in the Ashton area, near Helston in Cornwall, at about 00:00 BST on Friday. Her next of kin have been informed and a murder investigation has been launched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The arrested man, who is 36 and from Penzance, remains in custody and police are conducting enquiries at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Insp Pete Gee said: &#8220;At this time, I would like to reassure the community that incidents of this nature are very rare but if anyone has any concerns, I encourage them to approach and speak to our officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a woman in her 80s.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613346","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\/613346","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=613346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}