{"id":405630,"date":"2025-09-07T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405630\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:12:11","slug":"man-charged-with-the-murder-of-chrissy-burns-in-armagh-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405630\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with the murder of Chrissy Burns in Armagh \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 39-year-old man charged with the murder of Chrissy Burns (40) in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/armagh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/armagh\">Armagh<\/a> is due in court on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives from the PSNI\u2019s Major Investigation Team confirmed on Sunday the suspect had been charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is due before Newry Magistrates\u2019 Court, with all charges to be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mr Burns was originally from Warrenpoint and was found dead at an address in the Cusher Green area of Mountnorris on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/it-could-be-the-end-of-sandy-row-as-we-know-it-residents-of-loyalist-area-against-development-plans-for-bonfire-site-GA2P3PP5IRE2DPN7HV7BX3WWLQ\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"&#x2018;It could be the end of Sandy Row as we know it&#x2019;: Residents of loyalist area against development plans for bonfire site\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757261530_176_6MY6F23JAVENVDCB4SPGLPFIVQ.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/people-are-really-looking-forward-to-coming-to-belfast-oldest-irish-language-arts-festival-returning-to-city-after-30-years-with-new-kneecap-inspired-alterations-LMX2L3LSFNFIXKM3D5MM2TCY5I\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"&#x2018;People are really looking forward to coming to Belfast&#x2019; &#x2013; Oldest Irish language arts festival returning to city after 30 years with new Kneecap-inspired alterations\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/LLMTSNZPTZA6BGNQYYWKWUQURU.JPG\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emergency services had attended but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene with serious head and facial injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His death is now the 10th murder in Northern Ireland within 10 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Speaking to the Irish News on Friday, local councillor Keith Ratcliffe said the violent death had caused shock among in the rural area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a very close community, a quiet rural village, which never has any incidents like this. This is very rare,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMy condolences go out to the victim\u2019s family and friends at this time, it is a terrible tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old man charged with the murder of Chrissy Burns (40) in Armagh is due in court on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[99199,1619,1144,1618,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-405630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-armagh","9":"tag-murder","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-psni","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115163899425267162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405630","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=405630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}