{"id":344181,"date":"2025-08-14T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/344181\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:27:21","slug":"man-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-edinburgh-gun-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/344181\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with attempted murder after Edinburgh gun incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755184337_952_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/498250e0-6c86-11f0-85cd-0f57f4dbb3ff.png.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Alan Simpson Two police officers with their back to the camera. Both are wearing dark clothing and boots with hi-viz jackets over the top with the word police on the back in white writing on a blue background. The officer on the right is wearing a cap. They are walking through long green grass towards a white block of flats with small windows in the side.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Alan Simpson<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Hailesland Gardens in Wester Hailes following reports of a gun being discharged <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A 25-year-old man has been charged with  attempted murder and possession of a gun following a firearms incident in Edinburgh last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Police were called to Hailesland Gardens in the Wester Hailes area on 24 July following reports of a gun being fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A 23-year-old man was treated in hospital for an injury to his arm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The arrested man is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Simpson Police were called to Hailesland Gardens in Wester Hailes following reports of a gun being discharged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-344181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115027827027852657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344181","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=344181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}