{"id":104533,"date":"2025-10-26T05:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104533\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:47:09","slug":"baby-threatened-with-broken-glass-in-belfast-carjacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104533\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby threatened with broken glass in Belfast carjacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baby was threatened with broken glass during a carjacking in Belfast city centre.<\/p>\n<p>A PSNI spokesperson: &#8220;It was reported that a delivery driver had exited his vehicle, a white Vauxhall Agila, in the Donegall Place area at around 3.50am, leaving his partner and her young baby in the rear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two men approached the car on foot, before one got into the driver&#8217;s seat and drove the vehicle away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second man appeared to try to stop him, but was unsuccessful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said that a short distance away, close to Fountain Lane, &#8220;the man turned and held what the woman believed to be a broken bottle or piece of broken glass to the head of the young baby and told her to get out of the car&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After the mother and child left the vehicle it was driven towards City Hall and onto Chichester Street. It was later found in Upper Stanfield Street.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesperson added: &#8220;This was an absolutely shocking incident and an extremely distressing ordeal for the victims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have been left shaken, but thankfully otherwise uninjured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone in the area at the time who saw anything suspicious or may have CCTV or dashcam footage has been asked to contact the PSNI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby was threatened with broken glass during a carjacking in Belfast city centre. A PSNI spokesperson: &#8220;It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-104533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}