{"id":942520,"date":"2026-05-06T22:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942520\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:57:22","slug":"man-denies-attempting-to-murder-his-father-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942520\/","title":{"rendered":"Man denies attempting to murder his father in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trial is set to take place later this yearPolice cordon after serious attack in South Bristol<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man has denied attempting to kill his father in an incident in Bristol six weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Thomas Gwyther appeared before a judge at Bristol Crown Court today (May 6) and was told he faces two charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The first is that he attempted to murder Colston Wayne Gwyther, his father, on the last Saturday in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The second indictment is a charge of wounding with intent to endanger life, on the same date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The 34-year-old, from New Meadows in <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/hengrove\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Hengrove<\/a>, South Bristol, pleaded \u2018not guilty\u2019 to both charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He was remanded in custody, and a date was set for a four-day trial to take place starting on October 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It comes after an incident at a residential property in Fortfield Road, Whitchurch on Saturday, March 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trial is set to take place later this yearPolice cordon after serious attack in South Bristol A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,30,393,4884,10001,10002,16,15,10000],"class_list":{"0":"post-942520","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-courts","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-hengrove","14":"tag-south-bristol","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-whitchurch"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116530109161072993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942520","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=942520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}