{"id":523906,"date":"2026-06-29T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/523906\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:34:07","slug":"trial-due-to-begin-for-top-boy-actor-michael-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/523906\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial due to begin for Top Boy actor Michael Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAFTA-winning actor Micheal Ward is due to stand trial on charges including rape and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old, known for his roles in Top Boy, Blue Story and Small Axe, faces two counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>The charges relate to one woman and alleged offences in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Ward is due to appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He is on conditional bail and must not contact the complainant.<\/p>\n<p>Ward has previously denied the charges in full.<\/p>\n<p>The actor won the BAFTA Rising Star award in 2020 and received further BAFTA nominations for his work on Small Axe and Empire Of Light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAFTA-winning actor Micheal Ward is due to stand trial on charges including rape and sexual assault. The 28-year-old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-523906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523906","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=523906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}