{"id":457865,"date":"2026-03-04T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/457865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:03:07","slug":"family-pay-tribute-to-proud-father-david-rogers-from-pencoed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/457865\/","title":{"rendered":"Family pay tribute to &#8216;proud father&#8217; David Rogers from Pencoed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family of a 58-year-old man whose death is being investigated by police as a suspected murder have paid tribute to the &#8220;proud father-of-four&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Rogers, affectionately known as &#8220;Disco Dave&#8221;, was taken to hospital in a critical condition after emergency services were called to Felindre Road, Pencoed, Bridgend, on 28 February. He died on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Wales Police said Liam Walters, 26, of Pencoed, had been charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walters remains remanded in custody and is due to appear at Newport Crown Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a 58-year-old man whose death is being investigated by police as a suspected murder have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-457865","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\/457865","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=457865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}