{"id":1524,"date":"2025-09-05T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/1524\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:15:07","slug":"police-continuing-appeal-after-man-found-dead-in-armagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/1524\/","title":{"rendered":"Police continuing appeal after man found dead in Armagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 39-year-old man remains in police custody after a 40-year-old man was found dead in a Co Armagh village yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The remains of &#8216;Chrissy&#8217; Christopher Burns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2025\/0904\/1531885-armagh-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">were discovered at a property in the Cusher Green area of Mountnorris at around 11.30am.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Burns, who was originally from the Warrenpoint area, had suffered &#8220;serious head and facial injuries&#8221;, the PSNI said.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder and continues to be questioned by detectives.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Chief Inspector Gary Robinson said: &#8220;Our thoughts are with Mr Burns\u2019 family and loved ones at this distressing time as they try to come to terms with their tragic loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our team continues to work at pace to establish the circumstances surrounding Mr Burns\u2019 death and I would reiterate our appeal to anyone who may have information that could assist us,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can contact police on 101, quoting reference number 573 04\/09\/25, or submit a non-emergency reporting form through the PSNI website or Crimestoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old man remains in police custody after a 40-year-old man was found dead in a Co Armagh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","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=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}