{"id":25315,"date":"2013-02-02T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/blackpool-burning-body-teen-stabbed-death-125510971.html"},"modified":"2013-02-02T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T16:34:14","slug":"blackpool-burning-body-teen-stabbed-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/blackpool-burning-body-teen-stabbed-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool Burning Body: Teen Stabbed To Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 16-year-old girl whose body was found burning in an alley was stabbed to death, a post-mortem examination has found.<\/p>\n

Sasha Marsden’s body was set on fire after she had died from stab wounds to the head and face, police said.<\/p>\n

Police cordoned off the area in South Shore, Blackpool, after her body was discovered at 9pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A 22-year-old man was arrested nearby and police have been granted a further 36 hours to question him.<\/p>\n

A woman aged 20 was also held but later released without charge.<\/p>\n

A police spokesman said: “Following the death of Sasha Marsden, a Home Office\u00a0post-mortem examination has been carried out and has found that Sasha died as a result of receiving significant stab wounds to the head and face.<\/p>\n

“It also showed that attempts were made to set the body on fire and this was after Sasha had died.<\/p>\n

“The results have been shared with the family, and specially trained officers are continuing to support them.”<\/p>\n

On Friday, specialist crime scene investigators carried out forensic searches of the alley behind Kirby Road and at the Grafton House bed-and-breakfast hotel on the same road, which is a few streets off the Promenade.<\/p>\n

Carl Evans, owner of the nearby Kimber Guest House, told Sky News he spotted the fire when he walked out into his back garden on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

“I heard the alarms going and saw the smoke, but I thought it was just someone burning rubbish,” he said.<\/p>\n

He added that some residents had attempted to put out the flames before realising it was a body on fire.<\/p>\n

“The lass two doors up said someone seemed to have put something out – like a mannequin – but it turned out to be the body of a 16-year-old girl.”<\/p>\n

Sasha was in the first year of a childcare course at Blackpool and The Fylde College and lived with her parents in Staining, near Blackpool.<\/p>\n

In a tribute to her, Mandy Pritchard, head of the college’s school for society, health and childhood, said she was “a friendly, considerate individual who cared about her fellow students”.<\/p>\n

Numerous tributes were paid to the youngster on a Facebook page set up in her memory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A 16-year-old girl whose body was found burning in an alley was stabbed to death, a post-mortem examination has found.<\/p>\n

Sasha Marsden’s body was set on fire after she had died from stab wounds to the head and face, police said.<\/p>\n

Police cordoned off the area in South Shore, Blackpool, after her body was discovered at 9pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A 22-year-old man was arrested nearby and police have been granted a further 36 hours to question him.<\/p>\n

A woman aged 20 was also held but later released without charge.<\/p>\n

A police spokesman said: “Following the death of Sasha Marsden, a Home Office post-mortem examination has been carried out and has found that Sasha died as a result of receiving significant stab wounds to the head and face.<\/p>\n

“It also showed that attempts were made to set the body on fire and this was after Sasha had died.<\/p>\n

“The results have been shared with the family, and specially trained officers are continuing to support them.”<\/p>\n

On Friday, specialist crime scene investigators carried out forensic searches of the alley behind Kirby Road and at the Grafton House bed-and-breakfast hotel on the same road, which is a few streets off the Promenade.<\/p>\n

Carl Evans, owner of the nearby Kimber Guest House, told Sky News he spotted the fire when he walked out into his back garden on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

“I heard the alarms going and saw the smoke, but I thought it was just someone burning rubbish,” he said.<\/p>\n

He added that some residents had attempted to put out the flames before realising it was a body on fire.<\/p>\n

“The lass two doors up said someone seemed to have put something out – like a mannequin – but it turned out to be the body of a 16-year-old girl.”<\/p>\n

Sasha was in the first year of a childcare course at Blackpool and The Fylde College and lived with her parents in Staining, near Blackpool.<\/p>\n

In a tribute to her, Mandy Pritchard, head of the college’s school for society, health and childhood, said she was “a friendly, considerate individual who cared about her fellow students”.<\/p>\n

Numerous tributes were paid to the youngster on a Facebook page set up in her memory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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