{"id":721806,"date":"2026-07-31T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721806\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:28:08","slug":"commonwealth-games-boxing-official-suspended-over-headbutt-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721806\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games boxing official suspended over headbutt probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On another occasion, Hynd is alleged to have hit a child &#8220;aged approximately eight or nine&#8221; over the head with an item during the club&#8217;s &#8220;cubs&#8221; class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That incident was said to have been witnessed by another coach, who left the club for a short period afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A further complaint said another boxer suffered an injured hand, but felt &#8220;forced to undertake unsuitable exercises&#8221;. He left the gym a short time later due to feeling &#8220;bullied&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hynd is also alleged to have repeatedly made fun of another child who had recently lost weight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hynd was appointed as a technical official at the Games in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Complaints were initially reported to Boxing Scotland in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the Commonwealth Games said the appointment of officials was under the remit of Boxing Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hynd was ordered to stay away from the club and related activities while the probe is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boxing Scotland said it was unable to comment on specific allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On another occasion, Hynd is alleged to have hit a child &#8220;aged approximately eight or nine&#8221; over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721806","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=721806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}