{"id":99183,"date":"2025-05-13T22:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99183\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T22:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:25:15","slug":"man-who-was-shot-by-police-appears-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99183\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who was shot by police appears in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was charged with firearm and drug offences<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_man-in-hospital-1361789.jpg\" alt=\"The scene in Merlin Park, Portishead\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The scene in Merlin Park, Portishead(Image: Jon Mills \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man who was shot by police in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/portishead\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Portishead<\/a> has appeared in court charged with firearm and drug offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">48-year-old Richard Thornton, of Merlin Park, appeared at North Somerset Courthouse yesterday (Monday, May 12).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Thornton is <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">charged<\/a> with being in possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was also charged with possession of class B drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Thornton has been remanded into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He will next appear at Bristol Crown <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/courts\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Court<\/a> on June 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The charges follow an investigation into an incident in Merlin Park, Portishead, on Wednesday 30 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">During the incident, two police firearms were discharged and a man was taken to hospital with an injury to this hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A mandatory referral was made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) the following day because of the nature of the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The IOPC informed police last week it will carry out an independent investigation into the policing response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was charged with firearm and drug offencesThe scene in Merlin Park, Portishead(Image: Jon Mills \/ SWNS) A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,956,11945,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-99183","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-north-somerset","13":"tag-portishead","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114502875672850103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99183","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=99183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}