found dead<\/a> in a roof garden in Bristol, police said.<\/p>\nAnthony Clemmings was found by a member of the public earlier this week in the roof garden of a block of flats in Redcliff Street shortly before 8.20am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old, known as Tony, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Avon and Somerset Police confirmed on Saturday that a 50-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder in the West Midlands area on Friday.<\/p>\n
Following the arrest, Detective Chief Inspector Laura Miller, of the major crime investigation team, said: \u201cOur inquiries into Tony\u2019s death have been progressing well since Tuesday and an arrest has now been made.<\/p>\n
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Police said an arrest has been made (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have updated Tony\u2019s family of this significant development and specially-trained officers are still supporting them.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis family continue to ask for privacy at this immensely upsetting time and we would ask people are respectful of their wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier, Mr Clemmings\u2019 family released a statement, saying: \u201cTony was a lovely man to all those that truly knew him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a much-loved son, brother and uncle and he will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis death has come as a huge shock to us and we ask for privacy as we try to come to terms with what has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14131,173,14130,6355,368,6767,6942,14132,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-32343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-bristol-england","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-exploration","11":"tag-horizontal","12":"tag-law","13":"tag-photography","14":"tag-police-force","15":"tag-shooting-crime","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116546249805248882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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