{"id":488662,"date":"2026-06-08T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488662\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:44:12","slug":"man-going-on-trial-accused-of-attempted-murder-of-three-children-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488662\/","title":{"rendered":"Man going on trial accused of attempted murder of three children in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is due to go on trial accused of the attempted murder of three children in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Riad Bouchaker, 52, of no fixed address, is charged with the attempted murder of two girls and one boy, and assault causing serious harm to a care worker, at Parnell Square East in Dublin City on November 23rd 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He was further charged with three counts of assault causing harm as well as the possession and production of a 36cm kitchen knife.<\/p>\n<p>A five-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s were left in a critical condition after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>A five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl were also injured.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came hours before the start of several days of rioting in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The trial is listed to start at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, and is expected to last for two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is due to go on trial accused of the attempted murder of three children in Dublin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-488662","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\/488662","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=488662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}