{"id":661493,"date":"2026-06-27T17:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661493\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:53:17","slug":"police-probe-launched-after-body-discovered-on-kirby-road-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661493\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe launched after ‘body discovered on Kirby Road’ | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A probe has been launched after the body of a man in his 30s was found on a Liverpool<\/a> residential street. Merseyside Police<\/a> said the man was discovered on Kersey Road in Kirkby at around 12.50pm today.<\/p>\n

Police are currently treating the death as unexplained. Several roads have been cordoned off, and a forensic tent has been erected on Kersey Road. One resident said: “No one can come in or out while they investigate.” Witnesses reported seeing a man lying on the ground.<\/p>\n

One man living nearby said his friend’s daughter had found the man, who had facial injuries and did not have shoes on, reports the Liverpool Echo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Merseyside Police said: “We can confirm that an investigation is underway following the death of a man in Kirkby.<\/p>\n

“At around 12.50pm this afternoon, Saturday 27 June, we received a report from North West Ambulance Service that a man in his 30s was found deceased on Kersey Road.<\/p>\n

“A police cordon is in place on Kersey Road and his death is being treated as unexplained whilst enquiries remain ongoing to establish the full circumstances of what happened.”<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is being urged to contact Merseyside Police social media desk via X or Facebook @MerPolCC. You can also report information via their website or by calling 101 quoting log 513 of Saturday June 27.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, you contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111, or via their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A probe has been launched after the body of a man in his 30s was found on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,924,221810,59,31283,2217,708,2512,56,221809,54,55],"class_list":["post-661493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-crime","tag-forensic-investigation","tag-gb","tag-investigation","tag-kirkby","tag-liverpool","tag-merseyside-police","tag-uk","tag-unexplained-death","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661493","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=661493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}