{"id":98231,"date":"2024-07-31T14:58:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=98231"},"modified":"2024-07-31T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T04:58:20","slug":"police-call-for-end-to-speculation-about-attackers-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=98231","title":{"rendered":"Police call for end to speculation about attacker&#8217;s identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Merseyside Police has urged people not to speculate about the identity of the Southport knife attacker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 17-year-old boy, born in Cardiff and living in a nearby town, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier police said the name of a suspect circulated on social media was incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said the unrest tonight broke out after calls for a protest near a mosque close to where the attack happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Chief Constable Alex Goss: \u201cThere has been much speculation and hypothesis around the status of a 17-year-old male who is currently in police custody and some individuals are using this to bring violence and disorder to our streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have already said that the person arrested was born in the UK and speculation helps nobody at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merseyside Police has urged people not to speculate about the identity of the Southport knife attacker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":98232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6407,85],"tags":[12109,8723,12107,12108],"class_list":["post-98231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-police-incident","category-uk","tag-cardiff","tag-serious-crime","tag-southport-england","tag-southport-knife-attacker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98233,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98231\/revisions\/98233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}