{"id":762962,"date":"2026-09-07T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762962\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:50:11","slug":"four-murder-arrests-over-babys-death-in-staffordshire-woodland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762962\/","title":{"rendered":"Four murder arrests over baby&#8217;s death in Staffordshire woodland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents living in Cheslyn Hay, which has a population of about 7,000 people, were said to have been left shocked by the child&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Robert Duncan, of South Staffordshire Council, said the community was devastated and urged residents to &#8220;avoid speculation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People should &#8220;allow the family and responders the privacy and respect they deserve&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The superintendent of the Cannock Chase Methodist Church Circuit, Rev Samantha Hagerman, said: &#8220;Our thoughts and prayers are with family, friends and emergency services affected by the incident near Cheslyn Hay yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Gavin Williamson, MP for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge, described it as &#8220;extremely distressing news&#8221; which had caused a lot of concern in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also called for people not to speculate about what happened and to allow police to carry out their investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am extremely grateful to the emergency services and my thoughts are with the child&#8217;s family at this incredibly upsetting time,&#8221; he said on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents living in Cheslyn Hay, which has a population of about 7,000 people, were said to have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-762962","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\/762962","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=762962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}