{"id":291167,"date":"2026-02-10T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291167\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:23:09","slug":"i-killed-who-i-thought-was-not-my-father-man-described-strangling-his-father-hour-after-arriving-at-five-star-ballyfin-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291167\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I killed who I thought was not my father\u2019 \u2013 man described strangling his father hour after arriving at five-star Ballyfin, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Henry McGowan. Photo: ABC News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/d69297c5-38b9-4294-bb4d-ee2bcb3883b8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Henry McGowan. Photo: ABC News<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A US national described &#8220;in detail&#8221; how he strangled his 66-year-old father with his bare hands, putting a &#8220;full fist into his throat&#8221;, just over an hour after arriving at a five-star midlands resort, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Opening the trial of Henry McGowan, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his father by reason of insanity, the prosecuting barrister also said that, despite being notified by the UK&#8217;s metropolitan police that the accused was travelling to Ireland and there was some concern for his welfare, garda\u00ed failed to locate him at Dublin airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Henry McGowan. Photo: ABC News A US national described &#8220;in detail&#8221; how he strangled his 66-year-old father&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-291167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","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\/291167","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=291167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}