{"id":340808,"date":"2025-12-29T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340808\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:38:07","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-of-grandfather-who-died-days-after-being-punched-outside-village-pub-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340808\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder of grandfather who died days after being punched outside village pub | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 36-year-old man has been charged with murder after a grandfather died six days after he was punched outside a village pub. <\/p>\n<p>David Darke, 66, died in hospital on Saturday after suffering a serious head injury near the Crown Inn in Appleby Magna, North West <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/leicestershire-6587\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leicestershire<\/a>, on 21 December.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Nathan Gothard, 36, who is from the village, was due to appear at Leicester Magistrates&#8217; Court on Monday charged with his murder.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Sunday, Mr Darke&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/murder-investigation-launched-after-death-of-man-punched-outside-village-pub-in-leicestershire-13487944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">family paid tribute<\/a> to a &#8220;devoted family man&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dave was a deeply loved father to three daughters and a proud grandfather to three boys,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#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>&#8220;He was a strong, active, intelligent and kind person who was a friend to all. He was a devoted family man with a deep passion for life, the outdoors, nature and walking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His life was tragically cut short and he&#8217;s now reunited with his loving, caring parents. He will be sorely missed by all who knew and loved him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leicestershire Police previously said officers were called to the pub at around 9.45pm on Sunday 21 December.<\/p>\n<p>The force said the victim was outside when he was punched and sustained a serious head injury, while the suspect was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old man has been charged with murder after a grandfather died six days after he was punched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-340808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340808","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=340808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}