{"id":349427,"date":"2025-08-16T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349427\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:11:11","slug":"woman-killed-in-chadwell-heath-east-london-following-attack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349427\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in Chadwell Heath, east London following attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A murder investigation has been launched after a woman was attacked in east London during the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to Chadwell Heath just after 05:30 BST following reports of an assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Paramedics also attended but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene on Chadwell Heath Lane, the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The woman has not yet been formally identified, police said, but officers believe she was in her twenties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Her family have been informed and are being supported by family liaison officers, the force added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">No one has yet been arrested in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Det Supt Brian Hobbs said: &#8220;Our thoughts today are with the victim&#8217;s family and friends in light of this truly tragic event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Local residents will see an increased number of officers in and around the area while our investigative work is carried out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He urged anyone with information to contact police. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A murder investigation has been launched after a woman was attacked in east London during the early hours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-349427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115039088442305075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349427","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=349427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}