{"id":665995,"date":"2026-06-30T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665995\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:13:09","slug":"belfast-disorder-man-charged-with-attempted-murder-and-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665995\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast disorder: Man charged with attempted murder and arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been charged with riot, attempted murder and two counts of arson endangering life with intent following violent disorder in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old was arrested on Monday in connection with a Glider bus which was set on fire on 9 June as well as an arson attack caused to properties at McMaster street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is expected to appear before Belfast Magistrates&#8217; Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Violence and disorder broke out in the streets of Belfast and sporadically across Northern Ireland after footage of a violent knife attack was widely shared on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with riot, attempted murder and two counts of arson endangering life with intent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-665995","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\/665995","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=665995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}