{"id":21926,"date":"2025-01-27T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/suspect-charged-over-death-of-man-from-larkhall-south-lanarkshire\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:26:14","slug":"suspect-charged-over-death-of-man-from-larkhall-south-lanarkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/suspect-charged-over-death-of-man-from-larkhall-south-lanarkshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect charged over death of man from Larkhall, South Lanarkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Detectives investigating the death of a man in South Lanarkshire have made an arrest.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Iain Kennedy, 32, was found seriously injured in a property on Fairholm Street, Larkhall, at about 22:00 on Saturday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Kennedy, who lived in the town, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where he later died.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Police Scotland said a 27-year-old man has been charged in connection with the death.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The suspect was due to appear before Hamilton Sheriff Court on Monday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In a statement, Mr Kennedy&#8217;s family said: &#8220;Iain was a much-loved brother, son and friend.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;He will be missed by all who knew him and we would ask that we are given privacy to come to terms with our loss at this time.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Det Insp Mark Dines said: &#8220;Our thoughts are with Mr Kennedy&#8217;s family and friends at this most difficult time. Officers are continuing to provide his family with support.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Chief Insp Neil Smith, local area commander, said additional patrols would be carried out in a bid to reassure the local community.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cg452xky974o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives investigating the death of a man in South Lanarkshire have made an arrest. Iain Kennedy, 32, was found seriously injured in a property on Fairholm Street, Larkhall, at about 22:00 on Saturday. Mr Kennedy, who lived in the town, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where he later died. Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[607,715,8243,8242,417,613,870],"class_list":["post-21926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-charged","tag-death","tag-lanarkshire","tag-larkhall","tag-man","tag-south","tag-suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21928,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926\/revisions\/21928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}