{"id":423034,"date":"2026-02-13T05:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423034\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:08:13","slug":"thomas-partey-former-arsenal-midfielder-charged-with-two-more-counts-of-rape-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423034\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Partey: Former Arsenal midfielder charged with two more counts of rape | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal midfielder Thomas\u00a0Partey\u00a0has been charged with another two counts of rape.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on March 13 to face the charges, which relate to one alleged victim in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offence was reported to police in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Partey appeared at Southwark Crown Court to deny five counts of rape against two other women, and a charge of sexual assault against another woman.<\/p>\n<p>Those alleged offences took place between 2021 and 2022 when he played for Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian midfielder, who now plays for Spanish club Villarreal, is due to face trial at the same court on November 2.<\/p>\n<p>Partey, who previously gave his address as Potters Bar in Hertfordshire, joined Arsenal from Atletico Madrid in 2020 in a transfer worth around \u00a345m, before he left the club in June last year.<\/p>\n<p>He has made more than 50 appearances for Ghana, including at the World Cup and the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Arsenal midfielder Thomas\u00a0Partey\u00a0has been charged with another two counts of rape. The 32-year-old is due to appear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-423034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423034","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=423034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}