{"id":395655,"date":"2025-09-03T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395655\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:24:13","slug":"boy-16-arrested-over-mans-death-in-edinburgh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395655\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 16, arrested over man&#8217;s death in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged over the death of a man on a street in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">John McNab, 22, was found injured on Great Junction Street in Leith, at Bonnington Road, at about 02:10 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Emergency services attended but he died at the scene. Officers are still in the area carrying out investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 16-year-old boy is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Det Insp Kevin Tait said: &#8220;I would like to extend my sympathies to John&#8217;s family and friends at this very difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said that inquiries into the incident are ongoing and anyone with information should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/contact-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:contact Police Scotland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">contact Police Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged over the death of a man on a street in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,136751,1102,24538,4884,136752,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-395655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-det-insp-kevin-tait","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-sheriff-court","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-john-mcnab","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115142712907968939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395655","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=395655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}