{"id":179695,"date":"2025-10-05T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179695\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T02:10:10","slug":"st-helens-leave-hull-krs-stadium-under-police-escort-after-terror-threat-sent-to-their-instagram-account-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179695\/","title":{"rendered":"St Helens leave Hull KR&#8217;s stadium under police escort after &#8216;terror threat&#8217; sent to their Instagram account | Rugby League News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Helens had to leave Hull KR&#8217;s Sewell Group Craven Park under a police escort following what the club described as a &#8220;terror threat&#8221; sent to their Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports News understands the threat was made towards the St Helens team during their 20-12 Super League semi-final loss.<\/p>\n<p>Saints head coach Paul Wellens was seen speaking to police officers after the full-time whistle.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer was stood outside the coach for the players and staff to get on, with a cordon of eight stationed around the coach earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The team bus was then given a police escort as they departed the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the club said in the post-match press conference: &#8220;The club had a terrorist threat sent to the Saints&#8217; Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was reported to the St Helens Ground Safety Officer and they spoke to Hull KR&#8217;s Ground Safety Officer. They are treating it with the utmost seriousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports News has contacted Humberside Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens had to leave Hull KR&#8217;s Sewell Group Craven Park under a police escort following what the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-179695","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\/179695","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=179695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}