{"id":310400,"date":"2025-08-01T22:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310400\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:46:23","slug":"cops-lock-down-cemetery-in-scots-town-after-body-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310400\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops lock down cemetery in Scots town after body found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the death is being treated as &#8216;unexplained&#8217; at the moment.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_cemetry.png\" alt=\"Cops have locked down entry points to the cemetry. \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Cops have locked down entry points to the cemetry. (Image: Google)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"CopsLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cops<\/a> have locked down a cemetery in a Scots town after a body was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Emergency crewsLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency crews<\/a> were alerted to the discovery this afternoon, Friday, August 1, at around 4:10pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police are treating the death as<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" &#039;unexplained&#039;Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8216;unexplained&#8217;<\/a> and said their enquiries are ongoing into the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Locals reported that officers have blocked all the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"entry pointsLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">entry points<\/a> to the cemetery as they investigate the death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An area within the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"cemeteryLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">cemetery<\/a> is said to have been taped off and a heavy police presence remains in the area tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Speaking to STV, a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Police ScotlandLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> spokesperson said: \u201cAround 4.10pm on Friday, August 1, 2025, the body of a man was found in a cemetery in Greenock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe death is being treated as <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"unexplained Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">unexplained <\/a>and enquiries are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say the death is being treated as &#8216;unexplained&#8217; at the moment.Cops have locked down entry points to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,24805,530,712,113464,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-310400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greenock","11":"tag-police-scotland","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-stv","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114955943196197825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310400","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=310400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}