{"id":339651,"date":"2025-12-28T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339651\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:05:08","slug":"man-who-died-after-leicestershire-pub-attack-was-devoted-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339651\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who died after Leicestershire pub attack was &#8216;devoted dad&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Tributes have been paid to a &#8220;devoted family man&#8221; who died after an assault outside a pub in Leicestershire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">David Darke, 66, suffered a serious head injury when he was punched outside The Crown Inn, in Church Street, Appleby Magna, at about 21:45 GMT on 21 December. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Leicestershire Police launched a murder investigation after Mr Darke <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c7832z1lq80o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">died at the Queen&#8217;s Medical Centre in Nottingham on Saturday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A 36-year-old man, previously arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm, was re-arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a statement released by the force, Mr Darke&#8217;s family said his life had been &#8220;tragically cut short&#8221; and he would be &#8220;sorely missed by all who knew and loved him&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They added: &#8220;Dave was a deeply loved father to three daughters and a proud grandfather to three boys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;He was a much-loved brother and a dear friend. Dave will live on forever in our hearts, minds and souls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;He was a strong, active, intelligent and kind person who was a friend to all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;He was a devoted family man with a deep passion for life, the outdoors, nature and walking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The force said it was continuing to appeal for anyone who could help its investigation to come forward. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tributes have been paid to a &#8220;devoted family man&#8221; who died after an assault outside a pub in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-339651","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}