{"id":448632,"date":"2026-02-27T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448632\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:35:10","slug":"man-accused-of-entering-manchester-central-mosque-with-axe-knife-and-hammer-to-appear-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448632\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of entering Manchester Central Mosque with axe, knife and hammer to appear in court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darren Connor will appear before magistrates<\/p>\n

10:08, 27 Feb 2026Updated 11:05, 27 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

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Manchester Central Mosque(Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

A man has been charged following an incident at a Manchester mosque.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police said Darren Connor, 55 – ‘a white British man’ – of Gorton<\/a> Road, Stockport<\/a>, has been charged with possession of an offensive weapon; and possession of class B drugs.<\/p>\n

He has been remanded in custody. He was due to appear at Manchester Magistrates’ Court on Friday (February 27).<\/p>\n

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It comes after an incident at Manchester Central Mosque on Tuesday (February 24). Mr Connor is accused of entering with an axe, a Stanley knife and a hammer. A second arrested man will face no further action, police said.<\/p>\n

Court documents detail the particulars of the charges Mr Connor faces.<\/p>\n

Count one reads: “Possess an offensive weapon in a public place. On 24th February 2026 at Manchester without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, had with you in a public place, namely a mosque, an offensive weapon, namely an axe, a Stanley knife and a hammer.”<\/p>\n

Count two reads: “Possess a controlled drug of Class B – Cannabis \/ Cannabis Resin. On 24th February 2026 at Manchester had in your possession a quantity of cannabis, a controlled drug of class B.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren Connor will appear before magistrates 10:08, 27 Feb 2026Updated 11:05, 27 Feb 2026 Manchester Central Mosque(Image: Sean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,2847,50,145146,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-448632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greater-manchester-police","tag-news","tag-rusholme","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448632","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=448632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}