{"id":489270,"date":"2025-10-10T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489270\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:58:41","slug":"two-charged-after-man-struck-by-van-in-edinburgh-murder-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489270\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged after man struck by van in Edinburgh murder bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two people have been charged after a man was struck by a van in an attempted murder bid in Edinburgh. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called after a 29-year-old man was struck by a van on Prestonfield Avenue at around 9.40pm on September 26.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, police confirmed two men, aged 28, have been arrested and charged in connection with the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The men have appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Constable Joanne Roberston said: \u201cExtensive enquiries were carried out to trace those involved and I would like to thank members of the public who got in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been charged after a man was struck by a van in an attempted murder bid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-489270","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\/115351879917475391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489270","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=489270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}