{"id":747117,"date":"2026-08-23T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747117\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:22:10","slug":"tributes-paid-to-brave-police-officers-among-seven-killed-in-wrong-way-crash-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747117\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes paid to &#8216;brave&#8217; police officers among seven killed in wrong-way crash &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local MP urges against sharing of AI images of deceased police officerspublished at 12:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Labour Party Chair Anna Turley reacts during the first day of the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, Britain, 28 September 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/e445f61e-58c4-43fd-9db5-9fa99a59dfd5.jpg.webp\"  width=\"3467\" height=\"1950\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPAImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Redcar MP Anna Turley says AI images being shared purporting to be of the two deceased officers &#8220;are not genuine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some more now from local MP Anna Turley, who we also referenced in our previous post:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MP Anna Turley says there are &#8220;no words&#8221; for the heartbreak of the families, friends and loves ones of those that died in the A66 crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This morning I went down to South Bank to lay flowers and pay my respects, on behalf of our whole community, to the seven people whose lives were so tragically cut short yesterday,&#8221; the Labour Home Office minister writes on Facebook on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She says officers Matthew Blades and Tom Clough were &#8220;serving our community and should have come home from their shifts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turley adds that Cleveland Police Chief Constable Victoria Fuller has asked her to urge the public not to share AI-generated images claiming to show the two officers that have died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These images are not genuine,&#8221; she adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Please, out of respect for the officers, their families and everyone affected, do not share images or information about this tragedy unless it has come from an official source such as Cleveland Police.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local MP urges against sharing of AI images of deceased police officerspublished at 12:00 BST 12:00 BST Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-747117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747117","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=747117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}