{"id":18997,"date":"2013-01-08T22:35:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/christmas-eve-murder-man-arrested-201444776.html"},"modified":"2013-01-08T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:35:07","slug":"christmas-eve-murder-man-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/christmas-eve-murder-man-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve Murder: Man, 21, Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Alan Greaves, who died after being attacked on his way to midnight mass on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old father-of-four suffered serious head injuries during the assault and died three days later in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>South Yorkshire Police said the arrest came after an excellent public response to an appeal made by detectives on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage of two men filmed just before the attack close to Mr Greaves&#8217; home was also released.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 police officers have been working on the case.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police said: &#8220;Following yesterday&#8217;s media appeal by senior investigating officer Detective Superintendent Matt Fenwick, and an excellent public response, a 21-year-old man from the High Green area of Sheffield has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Alan Greaves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inquiries are continuing and the investigation team wish to reiterate their appeal to the community of Sheffield to continue to come forward with information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two men were arrested in December in connection with Mr Greaves&#8217; murder and bailed pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Crimestoppers put up a \u00a310,000 reward to help find those responsible for his death.<\/p>\n<p>At a service after her husband&#8217;s death, Mr Greaves&#8217; widow Maureen said she had wept over the &#8220;evil that has been done&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Alan Greaves, who died after being attacked on his way to midnight mass on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old father-of-four suffered serious head injuries during the assault and died three days later in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>South Yorkshire Police said the arrest came after an excellent public response to an appeal made by detectives on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage of two men filmed just before the attack close to Mr Greaves&#8217; home was also released.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 police officers have been working on the case.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police said: &#8220;Following yesterday&#8217;s media appeal by senior investigating officer Detective Superintendent Matt Fenwick, and an excellent public response, a 21-year-old man from the High Green area of Sheffield has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Alan Greaves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inquiries are continuing and the investigation team wish to reiterate their appeal to the community of Sheffield to continue to come forward with information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two men were arrested in December in connection with Mr Greaves&#8217; murder and bailed pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Crimestoppers put up a &pound;10,000 reward to help find those responsible for his death.<\/p>\n<p>At a service after her husband&#8217;s death, Mr Greaves&#8217; widow Maureen said she had wept over the &#8220;evil that has been done&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}