{"id":56085,"date":"2025-05-02T10:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=56085"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:51:54","slug":"police-re-arrest-four-as-stocksbridge-murder-inquiry-develops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/police-re-arrest-four-as-stocksbridge-murder-inquiry-develops\/","title":{"rendered":"Police re-arrest four as Stocksbridge murder inquiry develops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Yorkshire Police have re-arrested four people in connection with an ongoing murder investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emergency services were called to Knoll Close, Stocksbridge, at 8.36pm on Saturday 12 April after reports of a disturbance. Lee Wesson, 34, was taken to hospital with critical injuries and died several days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the days following the incident, a 35-year-old woman and two men, aged 30 and 37, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Another 30-year-old man was detained on suspicion of attempted murder and perverting the course of justice. All four were initially released on bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the inquiry has developed, officers have now re-arrested the same individuals \u2014 this time on suspicion of murder. All have now been re-bailed as the investigation continues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police continue to appeal for any witnesses or relevant information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detective Inspector Adam Watkinson said the investigation into Mr Wesson&#8217;s death was continuing &#8220;at pace&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We continue to ask for any witnesses who may have seen the events that evening to come forward. Any information, no matter how small, could help our investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Yorkshire Police can be contacted by calling 101 and quoting incident number 902 of 12 of April 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alternatively they can be contacted through the online portal www.southyorkshirepolice.uk\/ro\/report or via Crimestoppers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Wesson has been described as &#8220;loving father, son, brother, uncle and grandson&#8221; by his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An appeal has been started to help his family with funeral costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Yorkshire Police have re-arrested four people in connection with an ongoing murder investigation. Emergency services were called to Knoll Close, Stocksbridge, at 8.36pm on Saturday 12 April after reports of a disturbance. Lee Wesson, 34, was taken to hospital with critical injuries and died several days. In the days following the incident, a 35-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56102,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56085\/revisions\/56102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}