{"id":311856,"date":"2025-08-02T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311856\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:02:23","slug":"man-given-cpr-by-police-in-piccadilly-gardens-after-suffering-serious-head-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311856\/","title":{"rendered":"Man given CPR by police in Piccadilly Gardens after suffering serious head injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Pic-Gardens-attack.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police at the scene(Image: UGC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man found with head injuries at Piccadilly Gardens in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-city-centre\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester city centre<\/a> was in a serious condition in hospital today, Saturday, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Detectives are working to establish if he was attacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It is understood police gave the man CPR at the scene late on Friday night (August 1) before he was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> said emergency services were called to the scene at around 11.40pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The man was said by police to be in hospital in &#8216;a critical but stable condition&#8217; on Saturday. He suffered &#8216;serious head injuries&#8217;, the force said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">No further details have been revealed and it&#8217;s not thought there have been any arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Never miss a story with the MEN&#8217;s daily Catch Up newsletter &#8211; get it in your inbox by signing up <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=b8052254-66af-41f3-9dae-7bbb0e3391c6&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">GMP said investigations were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In a statement, the force said: &#8220;We were called to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/piccadilly-gardens\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Piccadilly Gardens<\/a> at about 11.40pm last night &#8211; Friday &#8211; after a man was found with serious head injuries &#8211; we are trying to establish if he was assaulted. He remains in hospital in a critical but stable condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigatingPolice at the scene(Image: UGC) A man found with head injuries at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,187,2465,8086,16429,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-311856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greater-manchester-police","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-city-centre","14":"tag-piccadilly-gardens","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114959073274648707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311856","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=311856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}