{"id":349738,"date":"2026-01-03T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349738\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:07:06","slug":"woman-sexually-assaulted-in-bognor-layby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349738\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sexually assaulted in Bognor layby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman in her 30s has been sexually assaulted in a layby after getting into a vehicle, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victim had been in Bognor Regis town centre in West Sussex on Thursday evening when she entered a vehicle near the Tesco Express store in Station Road, Sussex Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The vehicle, believed to silver or grey, stopped in a layby bus stop on the A259 near the junction with Marsh Lane in Merston where the driver then sexually assaulted the victim sometime between 23:30 GMT on Thursday and 01:00 on Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver is described as a man in his 30s or 40s, of South Asian ethnicity, and with short, dark, curly hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 30s has been sexually assaulted in a layby after getting into a vehicle, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-349738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349738","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=349738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}