{"id":805180,"date":"2026-10-17T04:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T04:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805180\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T04:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T04:04:12","slug":"alisha-samuels-murder-man-no-longer-suspect-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805180\/","title":{"rendered":"Alisha Samuels murder: Man no longer suspect, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man arrested on suspicion of murder after the fatal stabbing of a woman in Manchester is no longer being treated as a suspect, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alisha Samuels, 26, was pronounced dead at the scene after officers were called to reports of a disturbance on Dorking Avenue in Newton Heath at about 02:00 BST on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Manchester Police said the 25-year-old man had been released on police bail pending further inquiries into other matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Detectives said their investigation remained active and that they were continuing to seek other people believed to have been involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Chief Insp Justin Bryant, the senior investigating officer, said: &#8220;While a man has been released on police bail as our enquiries continue, our investigation remains very much active.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are relentlessly pursuing those responsible for Alisha&#8217;s death and are continuing to seek those outstanding individuals believed to have been involved in this incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man arrested on suspicion of murder after the fatal stabbing of a woman in Manchester is no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805180","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\/805180","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=805180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}