{"id":20519,"date":"2025-10-01T10:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/man-charged-after-hearts-player-struck-by-lighter-at-tannadice\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:01:41","slug":"man-charged-after-hearts-player-struck-by-lighter-at-tannadice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/man-charged-after-hearts-player-struck-by-lighter-at-tannadice\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after Hearts player struck by lighter at Tannadice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"main-content\">\n<article xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 kSquvq\">\n<div data-testid=\"hero-image\" class=\"sc-5340b511-1 ilsLtA\"><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/1deb\/live\/3ccd0330-9ea0-11f0-9f70-63cdd409bfce.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1deb\/live\/3ccd0330-9ea0-11f0-9f70-63cdd409bfce.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/1deb\/live\/3ccd0330-9ea0-11f0-9f70-63cdd409bfce.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/1deb\/live\/3ccd0330-9ea0-11f0-9f70-63cdd409bfce.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/1deb\/live\/3ccd0330-9ea0-11f0-9f70-63cdd409bfce.jpg.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/1deb\/live\/3ccd0330-9ea0-11f0-9f70-63cdd409bfce.jpg.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/1deb\/live\/3ccd0330-9ea0-11f0-9f70-63cdd409bfce.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/1deb\/live\/3ccd0330-9ea0-11f0-9f70-63cdd409bfce.jpg.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"SNS Dundee United and Hearts football players in action.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 bGQwLJ\"\/><span class=\"sc-5340b511-2 lha-dta\">SNS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-536eff7b-0 jFVvLh\">Dundee United played Hearts at Tannadice in August<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 jdlrvG\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A man has been charged after a Hearts player was struck by a lighter during a match against Dundee United last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The incident happened during the match <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c74dz07jzm4t\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\">Hearts won 3-2 at Tannadice<\/a> on Sunday 10 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">An investigation was launched after a lighter was reported to have been thrown from the stands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Police Scotland said a 23-year-old man had now been arrested and charged in connection with alleged assault. He was released on an undertaking to appear in court at a later date. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<aside data-testid=\"ohio-section-outer-3\" data-analytics-group=\"true\" data-analytics_group_type=\"ohio-3\" data-analytics_group_position=\"1\" data-analytics_group_item_count=\"3\" data-analytics_group_name=\"Related\" class=\"sc-92527ac1-1 grVwYt\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c75q93qw2k1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNS Dundee United played Hearts at Tannadice in August A man has been charged after a Hearts player was struck by a lighter during a match against Dundee United last month. The incident happened during the match Hearts won 3-2 at Tannadice on Sunday 10 August. An investigation was launched after a lighter was reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20521,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions\/20521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}