{"id":27557,"date":"2025-04-23T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/tributes-paid-to-man-found-near-bodelwyddan\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:10:20","slug":"tributes-paid-to-man-found-near-bodelwyddan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/tributes-paid-to-man-found-near-bodelwyddan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes paid to man found near Bodelwyddan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The family of a pedestrian whose body was found on a dual carriageway in north Wales have paid tribute to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">David Emrys &#8220;Junior&#8221; Williams, 35, from Llandudno Junction, Conwy county, was hit on the A55 near Kinmel Park Services in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, at about <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq807lj7qkvo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\">08:14 BST on 15 April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A 62-year-old lorry driver was arrested in connection with the incident but has since been released under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">North Wales Police has launched a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash and are appealing to anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Williams was described as a &#8220;beloved&#8221; son, brother and father of three. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">His family said: &#8220;Words cannot describe how devastated we are, and your family and friends will miss you dearly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx204e7d8e2o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a pedestrian whose body was found on a dual carriageway in north Wales have paid tribute to him. David Emrys &#8220;Junior&#8221; Williams, 35, from Llandudno Junction, Conwy county, was hit on the A55 near Kinmel Park Services in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, at about 08:14 BST on 15 April. A 62-year-old lorry driver was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[9694,417,2243,4639],"class_list":["post-27557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-bodelwyddan","tag-man","tag-paid","tag-tributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27559,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557\/revisions\/27559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}