{"id":567902,"date":"2025-11-13T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567902\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:47:17","slug":"blackwood-murder-investigation-launched-after-two-people-assaulted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567902\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackwood: Murder investigation launched after two people assaulted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday afternoon, two police officers were guarding the door of a semi-detached house behind a police cordon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crime officers in white paper suits were going in and out of the house taking equipment with them, examining the interior of the home, while a police dog was searching the area to the front of the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A large area had been sealed off with police tape in the roads surrounding the house. It was very quiet on the street with few residents moving about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two teenage girls approached the officers at the police cordon, one who was crying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neighbour Alun Phillips, 77, told the BBC he had been working nights and woke to banging doors this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he did not know the people in the house who &#8220;kept themselves to themselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday afternoon, two police officers were guarding the door of a semi-detached house behind a police cordon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-567902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115543175620292752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567902","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=567902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}