{"id":56717,"date":"2026-07-15T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ballymena-vigil-held-after-family-found-dead-in-house\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:19:27","slug":"ballymena-vigil-held-after-family-found-dead-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ballymena-vigil-held-after-family-found-dead-in-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballymena: Vigil held after family found dead in house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prayers were said for the family during a service at All Saints Catholic Church on Wednesday morning.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The honorary consul of Poland in Northern Ireland, Jerome Mullen, said he had never experienced such a tragedy in his 18 years in the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PSNI Supt William Calderwood said emergency services were met with a &#8220;shocking scene&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police have said the cause of the deaths has not been formally established and they are not seeking anyone else in relation to the deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Calderwood said they were keeping an open mind, but they were working on a &#8220;strong hypothesis&#8221; of a &#8220;double murder followed by a sudden death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He expressed his deepest sympathies to family members, friends and loved ones for their &#8220;unimaginable loss&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce8k8rj7j1jo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayers were said for the family during a service at All Saints Catholic Church on Wednesday morning. The honorary consul of Poland in Northern Ireland, Jerome Mullen, said he had never experienced such a tragedy in his 18 years in the job. PSNI Supt William Calderwood said emergency services were met with a &#8220;shocking scene&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[10477,874,2999,2748,697,15601],"class_list":["post-56717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-ballymena","tag-dead","tag-family","tag-held","tag-house","tag-vigil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56717","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=56717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56719,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56717\/revisions\/56719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}