{"id":454914,"date":"2026-05-18T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454914\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:27:07","slug":"two-men-arrested-over-murder-of-man-in-east-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454914\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested over murder of man in east Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a man in east Belfast on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Gordon, 51, died in hospital from injuries sustained during an assault in the Holyrood Road area of Belfast on 12 May.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services, including the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, attended the scene and Mr Gordon was taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The PSNI said he later died and that detectives are treating the case as a murder investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A 25-year-old man and a 31-year-old man were arrested in Scotland on suspicion of the murder of Mr Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>Arrangements are being made for the men to be returned to Northern Ireland where they will be questioned by detectives from the PSNI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a man in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-454914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454914","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=454914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}