{"id":927373,"date":"2026-04-29T23:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/927373\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:47:13","slug":"us-singer-d4vd-bought-tools-online-to-dispose-of-girls-body-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/927373\/","title":{"rendered":"US singer D4vd bought tools online to dispose of girl&#8217;s body, prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Attorneys for D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, have maintained they &#8220;will vigorously defend David&#8217;s innocence&#8221; and said they believe the &#8220;evidence will show that David did not kill Celeste&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In court on Wednesday, his attorneys tried to block the release of the nine-page filing, saying it will lead to more media coverage and could affect him getting a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do have a very real concern about the amount and white hot focus and attention on this case for the last seven months and specifically in the last two weeks,&#8221; his lawyer Blair Berk told the judge arguing for the document to be sealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Charlaine Olmedo allowed for the document to be released but did agree to keep other pieces of evidence sealed from public disclosure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another hearing in the case is due to take place on 15 May. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorneys for D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, have maintained they &#8220;will vigorously defend David&#8217;s innocence&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-927373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116490669282464501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927373","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=927373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}