What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Detectives investigating the murder of a woman in Leeds have formally released her identity. Ruth Baker, aged 48, from Carlisle, was found dead at a house in Tempest Road, Beeston, on Saturday (30 March 2024). George Chalmers, aged 53, of Tempest Road, Beeston, has been charged with her murder. He
Police investigating the death of a woman at a house on Tempest Road, Beeston on Saturday (30 March 2024) have charged a man with her murder. A 48 year old woman died at the scene. George Chalmers, 53 of Tempest Road was charged with murder. He was remanded into custody
Emergency services were called to an address on Tempest Road, Beeston at just after 1:16pm on Saturday (30 March 2024) and discovered the body of an adult woman. Despite medical attention she was confirmed to have died at the scene. A man in his 50s has been arrested on suspicion
Updated: Thursday 15 February 2024 Police can now confirm an arrest has been made in connection with the death of a woman in Harehills, Leeds. We would like to thank the public and the local media for their assistance with our appeal. Officers are no longer looking for Warren Spence.
A horrid murder took place in Leeds in July 1840 and so far, no progress has been made towards solving it. The unfortunate victim was one William Reynolds Rotheray of about 20 years of age and a dealer in rags who resided alone in a house on Holbeck Lane. William
The Beecroft girls, Ada aged 6 years and Annie aged 4 years, were the illegitimate daughters of Thomas Mellor. Their mother Ada Beecroft, had been committed to the Menston Asylum at Guiseley where she died in November 1899. Some time before Ada’s death Mellor had moved in with another woman
In August 1918 a woman, Annie Mayne, aged 29 was murdered. Annie Mayne was married to Charles Washington Mayne but after eight years the marriage broke up after she was found in bed with Ben Hindle Benson and he took no further interest in her life; he moved into another
A man has been given a life sentence after being convicted of the murder of a man whose battered body was found hidden under paving slabs and pallets outside an address in Leeds. The victim, Bradley Wall, aged 24, was found in a stairwell to the basement of a house
Detectives have launched a homicide investigation following the death of a man in Leeds. Officers from West Yorkshire Police Homicide and Major Enquiry Team are now leading the investigation into the death of Paul Banks, aged 46, from Farnley. He was found unconscious in the street in Bodmin Crescent, Middleton,
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man in Leeds. At 11:53pm last night (8 April 2021) police were called to a report of a man having been stabbed at an address in Bismarck Street, Beeston. The victim, a 51-year-old man, was pronounced