{"id":750468,"date":"2026-08-26T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750468\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:10:09","slug":"man-admits-punching-former-boxing-world-champion-joe-cordina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750468\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits punching former boxing world champion Joe Cordina"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has admitted punching former boxing world champion Joe Cordina outside a Cardiff petrol station.<\/p>\n

Jamie O’Brien, 33, from Pentwyn spoke to confirm his name, date of birth and address at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court and pleaded guilty to assaulting Cordina by beating.<\/p>\n

It happened at a Texaco garage in Pentwyn in February.<\/p>\n

O’Brien was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay \u00a385 court costs and pay a mandatory surcharge of \u00a326.<\/p>\n

Judge Charlotte Murphy heard O’Brien was suffering a “mental health crisis” at the time and was soon after detained under the Mental Health Act.<\/p>\n

Joe Cordina denies two charges of assault<\/a> by beating Mr O’Brien and is due to stand trial at Magistrates’ Court in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has admitted punching former boxing world champion Joe Cordina outside a Cardiff petrol station. Jamie O’Brien,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750468","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\/750468","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=750468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}