{"id":7032,"date":"2025-09-08T04:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7032\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:30:10","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-of-christopher-burns-in-armagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7032\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder of Christopher Burns in Armagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives investigating a murder in Co Armagh earlier this week have charged a man to court.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old will appear in court tomorrow charged with the murder of Christopher &#8216;Chrissy&#8217; Burns.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old victim was found dead at a house in Mountnorris, near Markethill on Thursday. He had serious head and facial injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Warrenpoint, Mr Burns had been living in the house for some time.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old was detained by police at the time. Detectives were given an extension of time on Saturday to continue questioning him.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear at Newry Magistrates Court tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>As is the procedure, the charge will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives investigating a murder in Co Armagh earlier this week have charged a man to court. The 39-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-7032","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\/7032","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=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}