{"id":6905,"date":"2026-05-05T19:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:31:55","slug":"bristol-explosion-jo-shaw-and-ryan-kelly-identified-as-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=6905&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Explosion: Jo Shaw and Ryan Kelly Identified as Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have identified two individuals who died in a house explosion in Bristol. Jo Shaw, 35, and her former partner Ryan Kelly, 41, were killed in the blast that occurred around 06:30 BST on Sunday at an address on Sterncourt Road in Frenchay.<\/p>\n<p>Avon and Somerset Police confirmed that officers had been called to a domestic-related incident just minutes before the explosion. Investigators are treating the incident as &#8220;suspicious,&#8221; and Superintendent Matt Ebbs stated that Ms. Shaw&#8217;s death has been officially recorded as a homicide, based on current information.<\/p>\n<p>The police force will make a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) due to prior police contact with the victim concerning other domestic incidents before Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Police reported receiving a call at 06:17 BST from a person inside the property, detailing a domestic-related incident where a known man had forced entry. Multiple police units were dispatched. The explosion took place at approximately 06:32, with the first officers arriving on the scene at 06:34, followed shortly by fire and ambulance services.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Ebbs conveyed the force&#8217;s sympathies to Ms. Shaw&#8217;s grieving family, who are receiving support from specially-trained officers. He also appealed for public respect and privacy for those affected, acknowledging significant public interest in the events.<\/p>\n<p>#BristolExplosion #JoShaw #RyanKelly #HomicideInvestigation #DomesticIncident #PoliceInvestigation #AvonAndSomersetPolice #Frenchay #IOPCReferral #UKNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have identified two individuals who died in a house explosion in Bristol. Jo Shaw, 35, and her former partner Ryan Kelly, 41, were killed in the blast that occurred around 06:30 BST on Sunday at an address on Sterncourt Road in Frenchay. Avon and Somerset Police confirmed that officers had been called to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}