{"id":167645,"date":"2025-09-29T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167645\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:03:06","slug":"woman-raped-by-group-of-men-in-oxfordshire-churchyard-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167645\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman raped by group of men in Oxfordshire churchyard | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been raped outside a church in Oxfordshire by a group of men, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who is in her 30s, was attacked in the churchyard of St Mary&#8217;s and the surrounding area of Banbury town centre in the early hours of Sunday morning, Thames Valley Police said.<\/p>\n<p>The force is appealing for a woman who tried to stop the attack and help the victim to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" data-testid=\"app-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Mark Personius said they do not have a description of the &#8220;good Samaritan&#8221; but encouraged the person to contact police as she might have &#8220;vital information that can help us piece together what happened&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a horrific crime and Thames Valley Police is conducting a thorough investigation to identify the offenders,&#8221; DS Personius added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The town centre would have been busy on a Saturday night into the early hours of a Sunday morning, therefore, I would also appeal to anyone else who saw or heard anything in the area between about 12am and 2.30am this morning to come forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said a scene watch is in place at the church to enable the force to carry out forensic examinations.<\/p>\n<p>Officers have also been instructed to carry out house-to-house and CCTV inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been raped outside a church in Oxfordshire by a group of men, police have said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-167645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}