{"id":194961,"date":"2026-05-17T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194961\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:12:10","slug":"dead-body-found-at-queens-road-property-reading-town-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194961\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead body found at Queens Road property, Reading town centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  There was a large police presence on Queens Road on Thursday, May 14, with police tape blocking the entrance to one of the terraced houses opposite Queens Road Car Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Thames Valley Police have now confirmed to the Chronicle that their officers responded at 6pm to reports of a dead body at the property.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The police force said they attended the scene and have been carrying out enquiries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The deceased was described as a man aged in his fifties.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The scene on Queens Road (Image: Suzanne Antelme)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The scene on Queens Road (Image: Suzanne Antelme)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The man&#8217;s next of kin have been informed and police said they are not treating the death as suspicious at the moment, with a file due to be prepared for the coroner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  When our reporter arrived at the scene just before 9pm yesterday evening, three police cars were parked outside the property, with officers still in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a large police presence on Queens Road on Thursday, May 14, with police tape blocking the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-194961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}