{"id":514267,"date":"2026-04-05T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514267\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:30:10","slug":"man-charged-to-court-after-serious-dundonald-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514267\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged to court after serious Dundonald assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man sustained multiple facial fractures and a brain injury<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lisburn-magsJPG.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Lisburn Magistrates Court\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Lisburn Magistrates Court<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A 27-year-old man has been charged to court after a serious assault in <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/co-down\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Co Down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It is understood the charges follow the assault of a man aged in his 30s, which led to him sustaining multiple facial fractures and a brain injury. The assault was reported to police on Tuesday, March 31, and is alleged to have happened in Dundonald on Friday, March 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a statement issued on Sunday, April 5. police say the man has been charged with grievous bodily harm with intent, alongside possession of a class C controlled drug. He is due to appear before <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/lisburn\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Lisburn<\/a> Magistrates&#8217; Court tomorrow, Monday April 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">As is usual procedure, the charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage <a aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a aria-label=\"sign up to our daily newsletterLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=1342b3be-3db3-461a-a6b4-c60bfcaa13da&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man sustained multiple facial fractures and a brain injury Lisburn Magistrates Court A 27-year-old man has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2861,924,55499,59,57,58,50,2662,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-514267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-co-down","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-dundonald","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-greatbritain","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-psni","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514267","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=514267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}