{"id":362001,"date":"2026-03-24T05:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362001\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:03:09","slug":"police-renew-appeal-for-witnesses-to-derry-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362001\/","title":{"rendered":"Police renew appeal for witnesses to Derry murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have renewed their appeals for witnesses to come forward as investigations into the killing of Derry woman Amy Doherty continue.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was found badly injured at a house in the Summer Meadows Mews area of Derry city on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>She passed away a short time later in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of her murder, and currently remains in Police custody.<\/p>\n<p>Police Inspector Ferguson from the PSNI\u2019s Major Investigation Team has again appealed to any witnesses, or anyone that has relevant information, to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 28 years old, Amy was just a young woman. And my thoughts are, first and foremost, with her family and friends at this unimaginably distressing time,\u201d the Inspector said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, and remains in custody at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur enquiries are continuing, and the local community will continue to see a police presence in the Summer Meadows area over the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am appealing to anyone with information to contact us on 101, quoting reference 469 of 21\/03\/2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively information can be provided, with total anonymity, to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppers-uk.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.crimestoppers-uk.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police renew appeal for witnesses to Derry murder was last modified:  March 23rd, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have renewed their appeals for witnesses to come forward as investigations into the killing of Derry woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[162799,162800,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-362001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-amy-doherty-rip","tag-derry-murder","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\/362001","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=362001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}