{"id":61148,"date":"2026-09-20T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/big-fish-man-charged-in-connection-with-damage-to-belfast-sculpture\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:02:49","slug":"big-fish-man-charged-in-connection-with-damage-to-belfast-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/big-fish-man-charged-in-connection-with-damage-to-belfast-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Fish: Man charged in connection with damage to Belfast sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A man has been charged by police investigating damage to one of Belfast&#8217;s most iconic sculptures.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police were called to Donegall Quay around 00:30 BST on Sunday after reports that the left eye of the Big Fish sculpture had been damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 44-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is due to appear before Belfast Magistrates&#8217; Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckvgy0g32prjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged by police investigating damage to one of Belfast&#8217;s most iconic sculptures. Police were called to Donegall Quay around 00:30 BST on Sunday after reports that the left eye of the Big Fish sculpture had been damaged. A 44-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage and possession of an offensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[420,519,607,8755,3124,670,417,10703],"class_list":["post-61148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-belfast","tag-big","tag-charged","tag-connection","tag-damage","tag-fish","tag-man","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61148","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=61148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61150,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61148\/revisions\/61150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}