{"id":429972,"date":"2026-05-03T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:19:07","slug":"man-20-charged-over-assault-of-derry-taxi-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429972\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (20) charged over assault of Derry taxi driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.derrynow.com\/section\/975\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Derry<\/a>, investigating the report of an assault on a taxi driver in the Woodbrook area in the early hours of Saturday, May 2, have charged a man to appear at court.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old man has been charged with a number of offences including grievous bodily harm with intent, attempted hijacking, theft and criminal damage and is due to appear at Derry Magistrates\u2019 Court on Monday. May 4.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.derrynow.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/2075086\/police-urge-parents-to-speak-to-children-after-unacceptable-disorder-in-derry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Police urge parents to speak to children after \u2018unacceptable\u2019 disorder in Derry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As is normal procedure all charges are reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Derry, investigating the report of an assault on a taxi driver in the Woodbrook area in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26291,7726,61,60,43,109854,7288],"class_list":["post-429972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-county-derry","tag-derry","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","tag-psni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429972","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=429972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}