{"id":30337,"date":"2025-08-29T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30337\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:58:08","slug":"man-41-charged-with-murder-of-pensioner-sean-small-in-co-down-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30337\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (41) charged with murder of pensioner Sean Small in Co Down \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">A 41-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a pensioner found dead outside his home in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/down\/\">Co Down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">Sean Small (84) was found dead outside his home on Slievenabrock Avenue in Newcastle on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">The 41-year-old man is due to appear before Newtownards Magistrates\u2019 Court on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/psni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/psni\/\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">Earlier on Thursday, police were given more time to question the man who was arrested on suspicion of the murder on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">Detectives were granted a court extension of an additional 36 hours for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">Previously, detectives said they were keeping an open mind in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">Small had recently been released from prison after serving a sentence for sexual offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 41-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a pensioner found dead outside his home in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,17927,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,952,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-30337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-down","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30337","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=30337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}