{"id":378952,"date":"2025-08-28T00:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378952\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:21:14","slug":"murder-investigation-launched-and-man-charged-after-death-of-87-year-old-man-in-lewisham-southwark-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378952\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder investigation launched and man charged after death of 87-year old-man in Lewisham \u2013 Southwark News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Police have launched a murder investigation and charged a man following the death of an 87-year-old man in Lewisham on Sunday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police and the London Ambulance Service were called around 01:00 am on Sunday, 24 August to an address on Wellmeadow Road, near Hither Green Lane, following reports of a death at the property.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Hunt, 87, was declared dead at the scene. His next-of-kin have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"433\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-26-at-16.59.17-433x560.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-452531\"  \/>Brian Hunt \u2013 Image from Met police<\/p>\n<p>A post-mortem examination held on Monday, 25 August gave the cause of death as compression of the neck.<\/p>\n<p>Vasile Iosebica, 47,  of Wellmeadow Road, Lewisham, was arrested on suspicion of murder and was subsequently charged on Tuesday, 26 August.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared at Bromley Magistrates\u2019 Court on Tuesday, 26 August.<\/p>\n<p>The victim and Iosebica were known to each other, police have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have launched a murder investigation and charged a man following the death of an 87-year-old man in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-378952","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\/115103536538082710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378952","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=378952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}