{"id":214157,"date":"2025-12-28T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214157\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:17:10","slug":"psni-names-man-they-wish-to-speak-with-following-stabbing-in-co-down-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214157\/","title":{"rendered":"PSNI names man they wish to speak with following stabbing in Co Down \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police investigating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/12\/25\/psni-search-for-suspect-armed-with-knife-and-hammer-following-co-down-stabbing-attack\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/12\/25\/psni-search-for-suspect-armed-with-knife-and-hammer-following-co-down-stabbing-attack\/\">attempted murder of two people<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/northern-ireland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/northern-ireland\/\">Northern Ireland<\/a> on Christmas Eve have named 54-year-old Jonathan Baker as a man they wish to speak with in connection with the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Wednesday, December 24th, a man armed with a hammer and a knife entered a residential property in Bangor, Co Down, and assaulted a woman aged in her 50s and a man aged in his 20s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/12\/25\/psni-search-for-suspect-armed-with-knife-and-hammer-following-co-down-stabbing-attack\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/12\/25\/psni-search-for-suspect-armed-with-knife-and-hammer-following-co-down-stabbing-attack\/\">Police Service of Northern Ireland<\/a> has released images of Mr Baker, including one of him pictured in the Coniston Road area at around 3.55pm on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Superintendent Lindsay Fisher said: \u201cWe are becoming increasingly concerned for his welfare and today I am appealing directly to Jonathan to make contact with police. We have conducted a number of searches at different properties and areas as we actively seek to locate him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The image of Jonathan Baker (54) released by the PSNI on Saturday\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AWMK6J4CLUQHAYNPYMG3O66AMM.jpg\"   width=\"400\" height=\"574\"\/>The image of Jonathan Baker (54) released by the PSNI on Saturday <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Superintendent Fisher added that officers remain in attendance at Chippendale Avenue, which was the scene of the stabbing. The injured man and woman have both been discharged following treatment for what were described as serious injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police believe that Mr Baker was wearing a navy blue jacket with the brand name \u2018Helly Hansen\u2019 written on the back in white, as well as blue jeans, and dark trainers with white soles. He is described as being around 5ft 10 ins in height, with short, dark hair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAlthough we do not believe there is a serious risk to the wider community, we would continue to remind members of the public not to approach Jonathan if they see him, but to create a safe distance and contact police immediately on 101, or 999 in an emergency,\u201d Superintendent Fisher said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police investigating the attempted murder of two people in Northern Ireland on Christmas Eve have named 54-year-old Jonathan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28566,42,1634,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-214157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bob","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-media","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214157","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=214157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}