{"id":69491,"date":"2025-02-14T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/14\/goa-india-vikat-bhagat-guilty-rape-murder-danielle-mclaughlin"},"modified":"2025-02-14T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:04:08","slug":"goa-man-found-guilty-of-rape-and-murder-of-irish-backpacker-eight-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69491","title":{"rendered":"Goa man found guilty of rape and murder of Irish backpacker eight years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family of Danielle McLaughlin say justice has finally been achieved after Vikat Bhagat convicted in India<\/p>\n<p>The family of a young Irish woman raped and murdered in India eight years ago have said justice has finally been achieved after a man was convicted in Goa.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle McLaughlin, from Buncrana in County Donegal, was found dead in a field in Canacona, an area of Goa popular with holidaymakers, in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/14\/goa-india-vikat-bhagat-guilty-rape-murder-danielle-mclaughlin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family of Danielle McLaughlin say justice has finally been achieved after Vikat Bhagat convicted in IndiaThe family of a young Irish woman raped and murdered in India eight years ago have said justice has finally been achieved after a man was convicted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,62,579,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-india","category-ireland","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69492,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69491\/revisions\/69492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}