{"id":526933,"date":"2025-10-25T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/526933\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:04:17","slug":"body-discovered-in-scots-car-park-as-forensic-officers-comb-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/526933\/","title":{"rendered":"Body discovered in Scots car park as forensic officers comb scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergency services raced to the Viewcraig Gardens facility, off Hollyrood Road in Edinburgh, after the alarm was raised at around 7.15am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

12:28, 25 Oct 2025Updated 12:29, 25 Oct 2025<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice at the scene on Saturday morning(Image: Edinburgh Live)<\/p>\n

A body of a person has been found in an Edinburgh<\/a> car park.<\/p>\n

Emergency services<\/a> raced to the Viewcraig Gardens facility after the alarm was raised at around 7.15am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

A picture shared with Edinburgh Live<\/a> showed forensic officers in white suits and blue gloves entering the car park.<\/p>\n

It’s understood police<\/a> have been stationed at the site throughout the morning and a cordon has been erected in the area.<\/p>\n

A concerned local resident reported being unable to access the steps which lead from St John’s Hill to Holyrood Road as police stood watch over the scene.<\/p>\n

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Officers<\/a> have since confirmed that they were originally alerted to a concern for a person.<\/p>\n

It’s understood the person passed away at the site.<\/p>\n

The death is not being treating as suspicious.<\/p>\n

A Police Scotland spokesperson told the Record: “Around 7.15am on Saturday, October 25 2025, police were called to a concern for person in a car park in Viewcraig Gardens, Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

“Emergency services attended but the person has now died.<\/p>\n

“There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.<\/p>\n

“A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services raced to the Viewcraig Gardens facility, off Hollyrood Road in Edinburgh, after the alarm was raised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-526933","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-police-scotland","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115434715681851224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526933","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=526933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}