{"id":401418,"date":"2026-01-09T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401418\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:32:09","slug":"essex-man-to-have-mental-health-report-after-weapons-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401418\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex man to have mental health report after weapons threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Richard Helliwell, of Tynedale Square, Colchester, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday via video link in relation to threatening a person with a weapon at the Red Lion Hotel, Colchester, and robbery.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Judge Richard Kelly said the weapon refers to \u201ctwo razor blades attached to a fork\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The court is awaiting clarification on whether a medical report is being undertaken to assess Helliwell\u2019s mental health.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The court will sit for an update on Wednesday, January 14.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Helliwell, of Tynedale Square, Colchester, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday via video link in relation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-401418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}