{"id":624415,"date":"2026-09-14T13:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624415\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:48:15","slug":"jurors-resume-deliberations-in-noah-donohoe-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624415\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurors resume deliberations in Noah Donohoe inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The jury in the inquest into the death of Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe has resumed its deliberations after one juror was discharged by the coroner this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The inquest has been examining the circumstances of the 14-year-old\u2019s death after he disappeared and died in north Belfast in June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The inquest began last January with the jury beginning it\u2019s deliberations at the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>After three days the eight men and two women failed to reach a unanimous verdict as required by the court.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"We've pix of Noah's mum arriving but given top line reckon I'll use one of him for main image and her's in story\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/002501d2-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nFiona Donohoe, the mother of 14-year-old Noah, arriving at Belfast Coroner&#8217;s Court today<\/p>\n<p>In an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; move the Coroner adjourned deliberations until today due to holiday commitments of four jurors.<\/p>\n<p>Proceedings began today with Mr Justice Kevin Rooney discharging one juror so nine are now continuing.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Donohue was 14 when his naked body was found in a storm drain tunnel in north Belfast in June 2020, six days after he left home on his bike to meet two friends.<\/p>\n<p>The jury has been tasked with agreeing findings on 10 questions, including the date of Noah&#8217;s death and whether any errors made by police contributed to his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jury in the inquest into the death of Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe has resumed its deliberations after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-624415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624415","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=624415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}