{"id":440996,"date":"2025-09-21T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440996\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:25:16","slug":"body-found-outside-tynecastle-park-as-police-probe-unexplained-edinburgh-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440996\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found outside Tynecastle Park as police probe &#8216;unexplained&#8217; Edinburgh death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A picture from the scene showed a police car, ambulance and blue tent outside Heart of Midlothian&#8217;s ground.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1_JGR_GORGIEjpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Emergency services were called to Wheatfield Place\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Emergency services were called to Wheatfield Place(Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"dailyrecord\">A body has been found outside <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/derek-mcinnes-doesnt-hold-hearts-35207521\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Tynecastle Park<\/a> in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"dailyrecord\">Emergency services were called to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/derek-mcinnes-brought-something-hearts-35816437\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Heart of Midlothian FC\u2019s<\/a> stadium at Wheatfield Place after the alarm was raised at around 6.30am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"dailyrecord\">An image from the scene showed a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/armed-police-storm-glasgow-street-35936744\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">police <\/a>car, ambulance and blue tent outside the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"dailyrecord\">A Police Scotland spokesperson told the Record: \u201cAround 6.30am on Sunday, we were made aware of a man found unresponsive on Wheatfield Place, Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"dailyrecord\">\u201cEmergency services attended and he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"dailyrecord\">\u201cThe death is being treated as unexplained and enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances. A report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A picture from the scene showed a police car, ambulance and blue tent outside Heart of Midlothian&#8217;s ground.Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,47959,530,712,182,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-440996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-hearts-fc","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-social-media","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115242515081527999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440996","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=440996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}