{"id":396163,"date":"2025-09-04T03:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396163\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:01:20","slug":"man-in-court-charged-with-murder-over-headingley-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396163\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in court charged with murder over Headingley stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A man accused of murdering another man who was fatally stabbed in Leeds has appeared before the city&#8217;s crown court for the first time. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police were called to Cardigan Road in Headingley shortly before 16:30 BST on Friday, and Elsiado Marku, 26, was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later, West Yorkshire Police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eljon Markaj, 31, of no fixed address, is also charged with possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was remanded in custody to appear again at Leeds Crown Court on 1 October for a plea and trial preparation hearing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of murdering another man who was fatally stabbed in Leeds has appeared before the city&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-396163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115143801956475997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396163","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=396163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}