{"id":360183,"date":"2026-01-09T03:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360183\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:51:15","slug":"ipswich-man-denies-assaulting-emergency-healthcare-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360183\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich man denies assaulting emergency healthcare workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Leroy Ranson, of Wherstead Road, Ipswich, denied both offences during a plea hearing at Suffolk Magistrates&#8217; Court on January 7.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The charges relate to incidents that took place on March 4, 2025, in Ipswich.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The defendant is accused of assaulting a health care assistant and an advanced clinical practitioner, both while they were performing their duties.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Each carries a maximum penalty of 12 months\u2019 imprisonment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Following the hearing, Ranson was granted unconditional bail and a trial date has been set for January 27 next year at Suffolk Magistrates&#8217; Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leroy Ranson, of Wherstead Road, Ipswich, denied both offences during a plea hearing at Suffolk Magistrates&#8217; Court on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-360183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360183","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=360183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}