{"id":682760,"date":"2026-01-08T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682760\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:23:21","slug":"swindon-murder-trial-opens-at-bristol-crown-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682760\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindon murder trial opens at Bristol Crown Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<strong>Barrie Hudson<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; 8 January 2026<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCrime<\/p>\n<ul class=\"slides\">\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/officer-640x394.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\t\tA 32-year-old man appeared before Bristol Crown Court today at the start of a murder trial.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan Erdogan, of no fixed abode, is accused of murdering his 27-year-old flatmate Fatih Zengi in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>On the opening day of the trial, Mr Erdogan, sitting beside an interpreter, spoke only to confirm his name.<\/p>\n<p>He denies murder and a charge of carrying a knife in a public place.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard how officers were alerted to a seriously injured man in Manchester Road by a passing cyclist shortly after 5am on Wednesday 2 July.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the best efforts of paramedics at the scene, Fatih died of his injuries shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>The trial is scheduled to last two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Barrie Hudson\u00a0&#8211; 8 January 2026 Crime A 32-year-old man appeared before Bristol Crown Court today at the start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-682760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115860878551602143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682760","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=682760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}