{"id":340933,"date":"2025-08-13T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340933\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:44:10","slug":"man-remanded-over-murder-attempted-murder-in-downpatrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340933\/","title":{"rendered":"Man remanded over murder, attempted murder in Downpatrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of 56-year-old Stephen Brannigan and the attempted murder of a priest in Downpatrick on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Malone, of no fixed abode, Belfast, appeared via video link before Newtownards Magistrates&#8217; Court.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Brannigan&#8217;s body was found at a house in Marian Park at midday on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours before the discovery, Canon John Murray was attacked with a bottle in the sacristy of St Patrick&#8217;s church in the centre of the town.<\/p>\n<p>He remains in hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Malone only spoke to confirm his name and that he understood the charges.<\/p>\n<p>He was remanded in custody to appear again in court again in four weeks&#8217; time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of 56-year-old Stephen Brannigan and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-340933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021051586924840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}