{"id":498394,"date":"2026-06-13T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/498394\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:49:07","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-of-41-year-old-man-in-leitrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/498394\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder of 41-year-old man in Leitrim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 36-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a man in Co Leitrim earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Bartosz Cylka, with an address at Arderry in Cornawaleen, Co Leitrim, appeared before Judge Eite\u00e1in Cunningham at a special sitting at Carrick-on-Shannon District Court.<\/p>\n<p>He is charged with the murder of 41-year-old Janis Balodis.<\/p>\n<p>Janis Balodis, who is originally from Latvia, was found unresponsive at a house in the Arderry area on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He was treated at the scene by emergency services, but was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bartosz Cylka arriving at Carrick-on-Shannon District Court \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/002483db-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nBartosz Cylka is set to appear before the district court on 16 June<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Michael Kelly of Carrick-on-Shannon Garda Station gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cylka was without legal representation, but was assisted by a Polish interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Cunningham said that given the nature of the charge, the district court had no jurisdiction to hear an application for bail.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cylka was remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p>He is set to appear before the district court on 16 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a man in Co Leitrim earlier this week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-498394","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\/498394","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=498394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}