{"id":686864,"date":"2026-07-12T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686864\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:12:12","slug":"two-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-after-body-found-in-suitcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686864\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested on suspicion of murder after body found in suitcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a man was found in a suitcase in woods, the Met Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers were called to a report of a potential murder at a block of flats on Kingfisher Court, off Queensmere Road in Wandsworth, at 22:55 BST on Thursday. No-one was found at the property, but a search led officers to believe someone had been harmed there so an investigation was launched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Friday, two men, aged 27 and 32, went to Medway police station in Gillingham, Kent, where they were arrested. Later that day, officers found the body of a man in a wooded area of Borstal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victim and the two men were known to each other, the forced added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a man was found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-686864","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\/686864","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=686864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}