{"id":276676,"date":"2026-02-02T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276676\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:48:09","slug":"teenage-boy-assaulted-by-masked-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276676\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage boy assaulted by masked man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has been assaulted with a weapon by a masked man in Co Antrim.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are appealing for information about the incident in Ahoghill on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cWe received a report at approximately 8.50pm that a teenage boy had been assaulted in a car park within The Diamond area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s understood the suspect, an unknown man who was wearing a mask, assaulted the teenager with a blunt object, believed at this time to be a crowbar, across his face.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have arrested a man following an assault on a teenage boy in Ahoghill on Saturday evening, 31st January.<\/p>\n<p>He was assaulted across his face by an unknown man who was wearing a mask and armed a blunt object, believed to be a crowbar. Full details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VfB97FscbI\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/VfB97FscbI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3zeXay3bcm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3zeXay3bcm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Police Mid and East Antrim (@PSNIMEADistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSNIMEADistrict\/status\/2018010316425089401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sustained facial injuries as a result of the attack and required hospital treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was also left shocked and terrified by what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 40s has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the assault is asked to call police on\u00a0101, quoting reference number 1397 31\/01\/26.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has been assaulted with a weapon by a masked man in Co Antrim. Detectives are appealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-276676","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\/276676","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=276676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}