{"id":161365,"date":"2025-11-04T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/161365\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:10:09","slug":"man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-following-death-in-portavogie-co-down-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/161365\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on suspicion of murder following death in Portavogie, Co Down \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man in a Co Down village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The victim has been named by police as 28-year-old Jordan Webb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\">Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)<\/a> said Mr Webb was pronounced dead at an address in Portavogie on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A police spokesperson said officers attended an address in the New Harbour Road area just after 7.45am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Detective Inspector Hollie McCartan made an appeal for witnesses to help the investigation. She said Mr Webb was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ms McCartan added: \u201cMy thoughts are with Jordan\u2019s family and loved ones at this most difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Scene of crime officers at the scene in Portavogie, Co Down. Photograph: Liam McBurney\/PA Wire \" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RYO2PJQ5EPAYYJA33L5EEKIQGQ.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/>Scene of crime officers at the scene in Portavogie, Co Down. Photograph: Liam McBurney\/PA Wire  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She said: \u201cA 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, and remains in police custody at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe\u2019re deeply aware this news will bring both shock and sadness to the close-knit community of Portavogie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cLocal people will see police officers in and around the area, with cordons still in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cOur enquiries are continuing, and I am appealing to anyone with information to contact us on 101, quoting reference number 246 of 03\/11\/2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI am particularly keen to hear from anyone who was in the New Harbour Road area of Portavogie between midday on Sunday November 2nd and 8am today, Monday November 3rd, and who witnessed or heard anything untoward, or who may have captured dash-cam footage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man in a Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,952,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-161365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115488530563871375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}