{"id":307106,"date":"2025-07-31T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307106\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:20:18","slug":"murder-investigation-launched-after-girl-3-found-dead-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307106\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder investigation launched after girl, 3, found dead | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A murder investigation has been launched after a three-year-old girl was found dead inside a house in Leeds. <\/p>\n<p>West Yorkshire Police said they received a report of concern for the safety of a young child at 11.06am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers attended the house on Austhorpe Court and found the girl inside the property.<\/p>\n<p>A woman at the address was taken to hospital and has since been arrested on suspicion of murder. She remains in hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skynews-austhorpe-leeds_6979193.jpg\"   alt=\"A police vehicle parked on Austhorpe Court. Pic: YappApp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        A police vehicle near the scene. Pic: YappApp<\/p>\n<p>Detective Chief Inspector Stacey Atkinson, of West Yorkshire Police&#8217;s Homicide and Major Enquiry Team, said: &#8220;We are treating this as an isolated incident and are not seeking anyone else in connection with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand that such a tragic incident as this will cause shockwaves in the local community and that there will be speculation about what has happened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would ask people to please let us investigate and if you do have any information that you think could assist our enquiries to get in contact with the investigation team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A murder investigation has been launched after a three-year-old girl was found dead inside a house in Leeds.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-307106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114948998930795409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}