{"id":333080,"date":"2025-12-07T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333080\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:10:09","slug":"footballer-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assault-and-affray-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333080\/","title":{"rendered":"Footballer arrested on suspicion of assault and affray in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police told BBC Sport they were called to the incident at 00:47 GMT on Saturday following reports of an assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The alleged victim was taken to hospital with injuries, which police said were not believed to be life-changing or life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The player has been released on bail while police enquiries continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the UK the name of someone arrested is rarely released or confirmed by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This approach was brought in following the Leveson Inquiry into the British media in 2012. It said arrested suspects should only be named in &#8220;exceptional and clearly identified circumstances&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Typically, a name is released if a suspect is charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police told BBC Sport they were called to the incident at 00:47 GMT on Saturday following reports of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-333080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}