{"id":351712,"date":"2025-08-17T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351712\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:27:10","slug":"man-beaten-in-home-with-bats-and-hammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351712\/","title":{"rendered":"Man beaten in home with \u2018bats and hammers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been taken to hospital after being beaten by several masked men armed with weapons inside his home.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are appealing for information following the assault in east Belfast in the early hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was treated in hospital for his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Kitchen said: \u201cAt approximately 12.20am, it was reported that approximately eight masked men, armed with what is believed to have been bats and hammers, called to a property in Loopland Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe men forced their way inside and assaulted the resident, causing injuries to their head and body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police are appealing to anyone who may have noticed the men in the area to contact detectives on 101 quoting reference 25 17\/08\/25.<\/p>\n<p>They are also looking anyone with CCTV, doorbell camera or other footage that could assist the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been taken to hospital after being beaten by several masked men armed with weapons inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,1610,1618,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-351712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","10":"tag-psni","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115044341871983240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351712","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=351712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}