{"id":626242,"date":"2026-06-07T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626242\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:36:09","slug":"manslaughter-arrest-after-mans-unexplained-death-in-west-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626242\/","title":{"rendered":"Manslaughter arrest after man&#8217;s &#8216;unexplained&#8217; death in West Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When emergency services attended the address, a number of dogs were also found inside the home, some of which had died, the force continued. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers are trying to contact the man&#8217;s next of kin and have appealed for anyone who may know him to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A post-mortem has been carried out and toxicology tests were ongoing, the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Acting Det Ch Supt Helen Bennett said: &#8220;Our thoughts at this time are with the family of the man who has sadly passed way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As this matter is clearly in the very early stages, we would ask people to avoid speculating and allow us to carry out our enquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Although we have arrested a person in connection with the investigation, we are still appealing for anyone with information to come forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RSPCA were carrying out their own inquiries, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When emergency services attended the address, a number of dogs were also found inside the home, some of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-626242","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\/626242","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=626242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}