{"id":5769,"date":"2012-01-11T17:29:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/01\/11\/body-in-river-identified-as-missing-student\/"},"modified":"2012-01-11T17:29:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:29:14","slug":"body-in-river-identified-as-missing-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/11\/body-in-river-identified-as-missing-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Body in River identified as missing student"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Tributes pour in for 20-year-old Gurdeep Hayer <\/h3>\n<div><strong>THE body of a man found in a Manchester river has been identified as that of missing student Gurdeep Hayer.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 20-year-old, from West Bromwich, had not been seen after spending New Years Day with friends in the city. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Police confirmed his body had been found in the river near to York Street in the city centre.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding his death and a Home Office post-mortem is due to take place later this week.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Hayer was a first-year business student at Glyndwr University.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>They paid tribute to Mr Hayer describing him as a \u201cpopular and talented student whose loss will be felt by all who knew him\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>University Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Scott said: \u201cI was fortunate enough to spend some time speaking to Gurdeep shortly before Christmas.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe discussed our shared roots in the West Midlands and it was clear how much he enjoyed university life and how well-liked he was by his peers.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe thoughts of everyone at Glyndwr University are with Gurdeep\u2019s family at this tragic time.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Student President Adam Fuller added: \u201cGurdeep was an extremely popular figure at the university, and particularly in the Wrexham Village accommodation where he lived.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cOn behalf of all Glyndwr University students I wish to send my condolences to Gurdeep\u2019s family.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes pour in for 20-year-old Gurdeep Hayer THE body of a man found in a Manchester river has been identified as that of missing student Gurdeep Hayer. &#13; The 20-year-old, from West Bromwich, had not been seen after spending New Years Day with friends in the city. &#13; Police confirmed his body had been found [&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-5769","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\/5769","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=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/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=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}