{"id":254774,"date":"2025-12-27T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/254774\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:12:09","slug":"new-image-released-in-bangor-christmas-eve-stabbing-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/254774\/","title":{"rendered":"New image released in Bangor Christmas Eve stabbing investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have made a <strong>public appeal<\/strong> to a <strong>man<\/strong> to contact them in relation to an<strong> attack<\/strong> in <strong>Co Down<\/strong> earlier this week, releasing a new photo as part of the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal was made by the PSNI as part of investigations into a stabbing attack in the Chippendale Avenue area of Bangor on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>A woman aged in her 50s and a man aged in his 20s were taken to hospital with serious injuries after the incident. Police had previously said one of them was in a critical condition, but in\u00a0an update on Saturday, police said that both had been discharged following treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Baker, 54, was last pictured in the Coniston Road area of Bangor at around 3.55pm on Christmas Eve, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Lindsay Fisher said: \u201cWe are becoming increasingly concerned for his welfare and today I am appealing directly to Jonathan to make contact with police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have conducted a number of searches at different properties and areas as we actively seek to locate him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers also remain in attendance at Chippendale Avenue, the scene of the stabbing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Fisher said police do not believe there is a risk to the wider community, but warned the public not to approach Mr Baker if he is spotted.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe now believe that Jonathan was wearing a navy blue jacket with the brand name \u2018Helly Hansen\u2019 written on the back in white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is described as being approximately 5ft 10 ins in height, with short, dark hair and wearing blue jeans, and dark trainers with white soles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we do not believe there is a serious risk to the wider community, we would continue to remind members of the public not to approach Jonathan if they see him, but to create a safe distance and contact police immediately on 101, or 999 in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reference number to quote is 914 of 24\/12\/25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can also submit a report or information online using the non-emergency reporting form via www.psni.police.uk\/makeareport, or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at www.crimestoppers-uk.org\/.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have made a public appeal to a man to contact them in relation to an attack in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-254774","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-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115794067085725848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254774","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=254774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}