{"id":171454,"date":"2025-12-02T18:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171454\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:32:06","slug":"former-england-and-premier-league-footballer-arrested-on-suspicion-of-attempted-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171454\/","title":{"rendered":"Former England and Premier League footballer arrested on suspicion of attempted rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A former England and Premier League footballer has been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The man, who played for the national team in the 2010s, was stopped at Stansted Airport in Essex on Sunday,  The Sun reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was reportedly pulled aside by Border Force officers as he was walking through passport control to board a flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Essex Police were alerted and the man was driven to a local police station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             The Sun reported that he had been wanted by police over a non-recent allegation of attempted rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An Essex Police spokesperson said: \u201cA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape and has been bailed to a date in late February 2026 while we continue our inquiries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former England and Premier League footballer has been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape. The man, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[54,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-171454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}