{"id":7399,"date":"2025-09-08T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7399\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:18:09","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-of-chrissy-burns-in-co-armagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7399\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder of Chrissy Burns in Co Armagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 39-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Christopher \u201cChrissy\u201d Burns in Co Armagh.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Burns, 40, was originally from the Warrenpoint area in Co Down.<\/p>\n<p>His body was found in the Cusher Green area of Mountnorris on Thursday morning with serious head and facial injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder on Thursday and remained in custody.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, police said they had been granted an additional 36 hours by a court to question the arrested man.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old man is due to appear before Newry Magistrates\u2019 Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs is usual procedure, the charge will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service,\u201d the PSNI said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Christopher \u201cChrissy\u201d Burns in Co Armagh. Mr Burns,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-7399","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\/7399","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=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}