Jonathan Baker<\/a> since Wednesday.<\/p>\nA man and woman were injured in the attack in the Chippendale Avenue area of Bangor on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Both were taken to hospital with serious injuries and have now been discharged.<\/p>\n
Police are treating the incident as attempted murder.<\/p>\n
The suspect, who was armed with a hammer and a knife, had been at large since, with the public being warned not to approach him.<\/p>\n
Earlier today the PSNI released a further image of the man they wish to speak to.<\/p>\n
However, in a further update tonight, the PSNI said a body had been found.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson said: \u201cPolice investigating the attempted murder of two people in Bangor on Wednesday, December 24 have located the body of a man.<\/p>\n
\u201cFormal identification will take place in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Emergency services at the scene in Bangor on December 24. Photo: Kevin Scott<\/p>\n
News Catch Up – Friday 19 December<\/p>\n
Earlier this week a local councillor said there was a sense of fear in the community.<\/p>\n
Independent Unionist Wesley Irvine, who lives near the scene, said the incident had changed the mood in the area at Christmas.<\/p>\n
“It stokes a bit of fear among people and people are wary about rapping doors until such time as they can apprehend him,” he said.<\/p>\n
“On Christmas Day there were a lot of people travelling from house to house to see family and friends and there is certainly some fear about.<\/p>\n
“It certainly came as a big surprise, I live not far from Chippendale Avenue, it’s a quiet residential area of established family homes and people would be long established in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Irvine added: “It certainly came as a big shock and not the sort of thing you would think would happen in that area.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Emergency services at the scene in Bangor on December 24. Photo: Kevin Scott Emergency services at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1999,1384,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-659049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-adrian-rutherford","9":"tag-down-news","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\/115795216129092492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659049","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=659049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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