{"id":403383,"date":"2026-02-02T04:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403383\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:47:14","slug":"afghanistan-man-charged-with-rape-kidnap-and-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403383\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan man charged with rape, kidnap and sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Najeebullah Arab, aged 39, of Mayfield Avenue, Grove, has been charged with one count of kidnap, one count of rape and one count of sexual assault.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police say Najeebullah Arab is an Afghanistan national.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25814749.man-dies-oxford-hospital-crashing-mountain-bike\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Engineer dies in Oxford hospital after mountain bike crash<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said: &#8220;He did not self-define his ethnicity when he came into police custody.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The charges are in relation to the suspected kidnap and rape of a woman near Mably Way, Wantage, on Tuesday, January 27 and an alleged sexual assault of a woman in Cane Lane in Grove, not Main Street as previously stated by police, on Wednesday, January 21.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Najeebullah Arab has been remanded in police custody and will appear at High Wycombe Magistrates\u2019 on Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Thames Valley Police also continues to investigate an alleged sexual assault of a woman on Oxford Lane, Grove, on Saturday, January 24.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Najeebullah Arab was also arrested on suspicion of this allegation for which he remains under investigation but has not been charged, police say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Najeebullah Arab, aged 39, of Mayfield Avenue, Grove, has been charged with one count of kidnap, one count&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-403383","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\/403383","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=403383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}