{"id":32231,"date":"2025-07-03T14:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/woman-34-arrested-over-murder-of-patrick-paddy-douglas\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:52:06","slug":"woman-34-arrested-over-murder-of-patrick-paddy-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/woman-34-arrested-over-murder-of-patrick-paddy-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 34, arrested over murder of Patrick &#8216;Paddy&#8217; Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A 34-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a man who died following a fire in Ballymoney, County Antrim. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Patrick &#8216;Paddy&#8217; Douglas, a 55-year-old businessman, died in hospital on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Emergency services were called to the scene on Main Street shortly before 07:00 BST on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the building, put out the fire and removed a man from the building.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Shortly after Mr Douglas&#8217; death, DUP councillor Darryl Wilson said he was a &#8220;well-known and liked character from our town&#8221; and sent condolences to his &#8220;family, friends, and all those affected by this devastating loss&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cpwqygdkk2go\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 34-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a man who died following a fire in Ballymoney, County Antrim. Patrick &#8216;Paddy&#8217; Douglas, a 55-year-old businessman, died in hospital on Tuesday. Emergency services were called to the scene on Main Street shortly before 07:00 BST on Tuesday. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1562,10269,880,1539,5911,983],"class_list":["post-32231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-arrested","tag-douglas","tag-murder","tag-paddy","tag-patrick","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32231","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=32231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32233,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32231\/revisions\/32233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}