{"id":593950,"date":"2025-11-26T01:14:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593950\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:14:26","slug":"brookhill-crescent-man-34-charged-after-man-in-50s-assaulted-with-metal-bar-in-co-armagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593950\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookhill Crescent: Man (34) charged after man in 50s assaulted with metal bar in Co Armagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The man was arrested a short time after the incident\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a85028c0-259d-460a-ad96-c8ed00092ad5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A 34-year-old man is due in court tomorrow charged with a number of offences after a man in his 50s was assaulted with an iron bar and grabbed around the neck in Co Armagh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The incident occurred at around 7.10pm on Monday (November 24) in the Brookhill Crescent area of Armagh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">PSNI Sergeant Bigger said: \u201cIt\u2019s understood the suspect entered the property and grabbed the victim round the neck \u2013 attempting to choke him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;He continued to be aggressive and punched him \u2013 before picking up a metal bar and swinging it at him, striking him to his arm and hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;He left the scene and returned a short time later \u2013 throwing a plant pot through the window, and causing damage to the front door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;Officers attended the scene and attempted to detain the suspect who resisted arrest, and was verbally abusive towards police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a85028c0-259d-460a-ad96-c8ed00092ad5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;I just love George Best&#8217; &#8211; Steve Mercer from Manchester  <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The man has now been charged with two counts of common assault, non-fatal strangulation or asphyxiation, criminal damage and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He has also been charged with disorderly behaviour, resisting police, and burglary with intent to commit grievous bodily harm and is due to appear before Newry Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning, November 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As is usual procedure, all charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man was arrested a short time after the incident Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[779,1300,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-593950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-armagh-news","9":"tag-liam-tunney","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115613354136973139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593950","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=593950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}