{"id":308635,"date":"2026-01-28T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:54:09","slug":"george-nkencho-was-violent-to-family-and-detained-under-mental-health-act-in-year-prior-to-fatal-standoff-inquest-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308635\/","title":{"rendered":"George Nkencho was violent to family and detained under Mental Health Act in year prior to fatal standoff, inquest hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"George Nkencho\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/45590680-1536-4b41-af71-1f3a517a5885.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">George Nkencho<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An inquest into the fatal shooting of George Nkencho by garda\u00ed has heard how the deceased was detained under the Mental Health Act by garda\u00ed and threw furniture at his family in the year before his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Details of Mr Nkencho\u2019s mental health problems were outlined in evidence by a senior investigation officer with Fiosr\u00fa, Stuart Duguid, who investigated the circumstances of the fatal incident involving members of the Garda Armed Support Unit (ASU) outside Mr Nkencho\u2019s home in west Dublin on December 30, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Nkencho An inquest into the fatal shooting of George Nkencho by garda\u00ed has heard how the deceased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,23,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-308635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-news-ticker","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308635","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=308635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}