{"id":402989,"date":"2026-02-01T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402989\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:47:08","slug":"man-charged-over-wantage-and-grove-rape-and-sex-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402989\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over Wantage and Grove rape and sex assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been charged with kidnap, rape and sexual assault following attacks on two women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thames Valley Police said a woman was kidnapped and raped near Mably Way in Wantage, Oxfordshire, on 27 January. Another woman was sexually assaulted on Cane Lane in Grove, on 21 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Najeebullah Arab, 39, of Grove, has been charged with one count of kidnap, one count of rape and one count of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was remanded in police custody and is due to appear at High Wycombe Magistrates&#8217; Court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with kidnap, rape and sexual assault following attacks on two women. Thames Valley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-402989","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\/402989","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=402989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}