{"id":613768,"date":"2026-05-31T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613768\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:08:08","slug":"body-in-van-murder-probe-transferred-to-met-police-transferred-to-met-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613768\/","title":{"rendered":"Body in van murder probe transferred to Met Police transferred to Met Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A murder investigation that opened after the body of a man was found in a van in Leicester has been transferred to the Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire Police was called to a car park in Garden Street at about 17:30 BST on Wednesday by a member of the public reporting concerns about the condition of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said inquiries were being led by the East Midlands Special Operations Unit, but after a search at a property in the Hounslow area of London, the Met &#8220;has now taken primacy for the investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 39-year-old woman who was arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody, while officers are also trying to locate the man&#8217;s next of kin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A murder investigation that opened after the body of a man was found in a van in Leicester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613768","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\/613768","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=613768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}