{"id":789062,"date":"2026-02-25T23:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:50:26","slug":"police-tape-off-area-after-woman-tragically-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789062\/","title":{"rendered":"Police tape off area after woman tragically found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death in Poynton is not being treated as suspicious<\/p>\n

19:28, 25 Feb 2026Updated 19:28, 25 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

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An area off Woodside Lane was cordoned off(Image: Submitted)<\/p>\n

Police sealed off a pathway and area of woodland on Tuesday night (February 24) after a woman was tragically found dead. Officers and paramedics attended the incident off Woodside Lane in Poynton, Stockport.<\/p>\n

Emergency crews were called to the scene shortly after 7pm to concerns for welfare reports regarding a woman. A woman, aged in her 60s, was found dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

A number of incident response units and police cars were seen stationed along Woodside Lane following the incident, with a walkway and wooded area also cordoned off by police who were standing guard amid investigations.<\/p>\n

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The death is not currently being treated as suspicious, Cheshire Constabulary said. A file is being prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Cheshire Constabulary said: “At 7.05pm on Tuesday 24 February, police were called by paramedics to concerns for the welfare of a woman on Woodside, Poynton.<\/p>\n

“Officers attended and sadly a woman in her sixties was declared dead at the scene. The death is not being treated as suspicious, and a case file will be prepared for the coroner.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death in Poynton is not being treated as suspicious 19:28, 25 Feb 2026Updated 19:28, 25 Feb 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,50897,1288,16,15],"class_list":["post-789062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-poynton","tag-stockport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116133955199362090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789062","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=789062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}