{"id":898699,"date":"2026-04-16T20:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/898699\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:20:36","slug":"man-found-dead-in-midlands-river-being-treated-as-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/898699\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in Midlands river being treated as murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man’s body was found at a park in the Midlands\"A<\/p>\n

A general view of River Leam at Victoria Park(Image: Coventry Live)<\/p>\n

A murder probe has been launched following the death of a man in the Midlands, police have confirmed.<\/p>\n

The body of a man in his 50s was discovered in the River Leam at Victoria Park in Leamington, Warwickshire<\/a>, on Wednesday, April 16.<\/p>\n

Police were called to the scene at around 7.45am and the man was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n

His next of kin have been informed of the sad news and are being supported by specially trained officers.<\/p>\n

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A post-mortem exam was carried out on the man’s remains and it was found that he died as a result of injuries consistent with an assault, police said.<\/p>\n

Officers are now looking to speak to anyone who saw anything suspicious in the area on the evening of Tuesday, April 15, or morning of Wednesday, April 16.<\/p>\n

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Detective Inspector Gareth Unett said: \u201cI understand this will be concerning for the local community, but I\u2019d like to reassure them we have a team of detectives working to establish the full circumstances that led to the man\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re carrying out a number of enquiries including checking CCTV and will have officers in and around the park providing reassurance. If you have questions, please speak to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d ask anyone who saw or heard anything suspicious in the area from late Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning to come forward and share what they know.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally, I\u2019d ask people not to speculate online as this can cause unnecessary distress to the family and may impact our investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Warwickshire Police added: “We\u2019ve begun a murder investigation in connection with a man\u2019s body being found in Leamington.<\/p>\n

“We were called to Victoria Park shortly before 7.45am on Wednesday (16 April) after a member of the public saw a man in the river.<\/p>\n

“Officers attended along with paramedics, however the man in his 50s had sadly died. His family has been informed, and they continue to be supported by specially-trained officers.<\/p>\n

“A post-mortem carried out today (Thursday) established the man died as a result of injuries consistent with an assault.”<\/p>\n

They continued: “If you have information, please report it online<\/a> quoting incident number 68 of 15 April.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man’s body was found at a park in the Midlands A general view of River Leam at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,9733],"class_list":["post-898699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-warwickshire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116416246140523224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898699","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=898699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}