{"id":43694,"date":"2025-12-29T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-charged-with-murder-after-dad-died-following-pub-assault\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:37:53","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-dad-died-following-pub-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-charged-with-murder-after-dad-died-following-pub-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after dad died following pub assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A man has been charged with murder after a &#8220;deeply loved&#8221; dad died following an assault outside a pub in Leicestershire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">David Darke, 66, suffered a serious head injury when he was punched outside The Crown Inn, in Church Street, Appleby Magna, at about 21:45 GMT on 21 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He died at the Queen&#8217;s Medical Centre in Nottingham on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Nathan Gothard, 36, of Church Street, Appleby Magna, is due to appear at Leicester Magistrates&#8217; Court later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm2vjm07v17o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">In a statement<\/a>, Mr Darke&#8217;s family said his life had been &#8220;tragically cut short&#8221; and he would be &#8220;sorely missed by all who knew and loved him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They added: &#8220;Dave was a deeply loved father to three daughters and a proud grandfather to three boys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;He was a much-loved brother and a dear friend. Dave will live on forever in our hearts, minds and souls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5yj11r442po?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with murder after a &#8220;deeply loved&#8221; dad died following an assault outside a pub in Leicestershire. David Darke, 66, suffered a serious head injury when he was punched outside The Crown Inn, in Church Street, Appleby Magna, at about 21:45 GMT on 21 December. He died at the Queen&#8217;s Medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[985,607,291,71,417,880,5347],"class_list":["post-43694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-assault","tag-charged","tag-dad","tag-died","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-pub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43694","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=43694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43696,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43694\/revisions\/43696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}