{"id":320667,"date":"2025-12-02T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/320667\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:23:14","slug":"ex-england-soccer-player-arrested-on-suspicion-of-attempted-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/320667\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-England soccer player arrested on suspicion of attempted rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former England international soccer player was arrested at Stansted Airport on Sunday on suspicion of attempted rape of a former partner.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN has confirmed the identity of the individual, who cannot be named for legal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Essex Police confirmed to ESPN that the man has been bailed until &#8220;late February 2026&#8221; pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said in a statement: &#8220;A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape and has been bailed to a date in late February 2026 while we continue our enquiries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man was stopped at a passport control point at Stansted, as first reported by The Sun Newspaper. The complaint is believed to have been made by a former partner several weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former England international soccer player was arrested at Stansted Airport on Sunday on suspicion of attempted rape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-320667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}