{"id":3409,"date":"2008-09-11T15:44:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T15:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/09\/11\/fresh-appeal-over-stab-death\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:12:19","slug":"fresh-appeal-over-stab-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/11\/fresh-appeal-over-stab-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh appeal over stab death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\"><b>Police release picture of car<\/b><\/p>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"180\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/AshrafHussainCAR_180x232.jpg\"\/>DETECTIVES investigating the murder of a Leicestershire man have released a picture of a car identical to the one in which his body was found.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Twenty-seven-year-old Mubasher Hussain Ashraf, known locally as \u2018Busha,&#8217; from the Hinckley area was found in a black Audi A3 just before 8pm on Sunday September 7.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A post mortem examination revealed Mr Ashraf died from a knife wound. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detective Superintendent Stuart Prior, who is leading the investigation, said: &#8220;It is vitally important that we piece together Mr Ashraf&#8217;s last movements.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I am hoping that the photograph of the car will jog someone&#8217;s memory.\u00a0 We know that Mr Ashraf had numerous friends and associates in both the Hinckley and Leicester area.\u00a0 Did you see a black Audi around the Hinckley or Leicester area sometime over the weekend or did you see it parked in Middlefield Lane?\u00a0 <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I would also urge anyone who saw Mr Ashraf after 5.30pm on Saturday to contact us as soon as possible.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A statement released by Mr Ashraf\u2019s family said they were \u201cdistraught and absolutely devastated\u201d over his death. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Anyone with any information is asked to contact Leicestershire Police on (0116) 222 2222 and quote incident 748:7:9 or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/article.aspx?articleId=1044\">Murder hunt after body found in car<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police release picture of car DETECTIVES investigating the murder of a Leicestershire man have released a picture of a car identical to the one in which his body was found. &#13; Twenty-seven-year-old Mubasher Hussain Ashraf, known locally as \u2018Busha,&#8217; from the Hinckley area was found in a black Audi A3 just before 8pm on Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}