{"id":797001,"date":"2026-10-09T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797001\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:34:11","slug":"rhyl-man-in-court-after-womans-body-found-in-burning-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797001\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhyl man in court after woman&#8217;s body found in burning van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 38-year-old man has been remanded in custody accused of murdering a woman in Prestatyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The body of the victim, who is yet to be formally identified, was discovered in a burning van in the Denbighshire town on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas Bell, from Wellington Road in Rhyl, appeared via a video link and spoke only to confirm his name in the short hearing at Mold Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c678p1jrkev1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested on Monday<\/a> after a murder investigation was launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old man has been remanded in custody accused of murdering a woman in Prestatyn. The body of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797001","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\/797001","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=797001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}