{"id":489080,"date":"2026-06-08T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489080\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:20:10","slug":"trial-to-begin-of-man-accused-of-attempted-murder-of-three-children-in-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489080\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial to begin of man accused of attempted murder of three children in Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">A jury will be sworn-in on Monday afternoon for the trial of Riad Bouchaker, who is accused of trying to murder three children in Dublin three years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">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 centre on November 23rd, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">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 class=\"c-paragraph free \">Judge Paul McDermott told the Central Criminal Court on Monday morning that a jury would be empanelled at 2pm for the trial, before Judge Tony Hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The trial is expected to last for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">A five-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s were left in a critical condition after the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">A five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl were also injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The incident came hours before the start of several days of rioting in Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jury will be sworn-in on Monday afternoon for the trial of Riad Bouchaker, who is accused of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-489080","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\/489080","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=489080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}