{"id":62837,"date":"2026-10-16T03:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-25-held-on-suspicion-of-murder-as-woman-victim-named\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T03:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:16:43","slug":"man-25-held-on-suspicion-of-murder-as-woman-victim-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-25-held-on-suspicion-of-murder-as-woman-victim-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 25, held on suspicion of murder as woman victim named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>A woman who was found dead in a stabbing on a street in Manchester has been named by police.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alisha Samuels, 26, was pronounced dead at the scene after police responded to a &#8220;disturbance&#8221; on Dorking Avenue in the Newton Heath area of the city at about 02:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of her murder, while another man, 61 and woman, 38, were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, Greater Manchester Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force appealed for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Insp Paul Costello said: &#8220;Firstly, my thoughts go out to the victim&#8217;s family, friends, and loved ones at this incredibly difficult time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Formal identification has not yet been conducted, but the family have been made aware and are being supported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cke8r2ne766do?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who was found dead in a stabbing on a street in Manchester has been named by police. Alisha Samuels, 26, was pronounced dead at the scene after police responded to a &#8220;disturbance&#8221; on Dorking Avenue in the Newton Heath area of the city at about 02:00 BST. A 25-year-old man has been arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2748,417,880,1110,8338,1170,983],"class_list":["post-62837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-held","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-named","tag-suspicion","tag-victim","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62837","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=62837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62839,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62837\/revisions\/62839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}