{"id":497848,"date":"2026-03-27T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497848\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:17:10","slug":"uk-police-force-says-it-will-reopen-rape-and-sexual-assault-probe-into-andrew-tate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497848\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police force says it will reopen rape and sexual assault probe into Andrew Tate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            26\/03\/2026 &#8211; 19:56 GMT+1\n            <\/p>\n<p>A British police force said on Thursday it would reopen a probe into rape and sexual assault allegations made by women against self-proclaimed misogynist influencer Andrew Tate between 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest in a slew of investigations into Tate, a British-US citizen who promotes his divisive views to millions of followers on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hertfordshire Constabulary can confirm that a decision has been made to reinvestigate allegations made by women between 2014 and 2015 relating to rape and sexual assault offences,&#8221; the police force, based north of London, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In Romania, Tate and his brother Tristan face allegations of trafficking minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>Hertfordshire police probed sexual offence allegations made by three women against Andrew Tate for four years before the case was closed in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is long overdue for Hertfordshire Constabulary to reopen the investigation into our allegations of rape, sexual abuse and assault by Andrew Tate,&#8221; the women said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which brings criminal cases in England and Wales, did not charge the social media figure following the police investigation in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The CPS previously said the claims were fully investigated and did not meet its legal test for a realistic prospect of conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The three women are now suing Tate in a civil case along with a fourth woman. The High Court trial is set to begin in June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Tate brothers are accused of tax evasion and money laundering in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>They also face separate rape and human trafficking allegations brought by different women and investigated by Bedfordshire Police, which covers their hometown of Luton, also north of London.<\/p>\n<p>Bedfordshire Police secured a European arrest warrant over the allegations, with a Romanian judge ordering the brothers to be extradited to the UK after legal proceedings in Romania.<\/p>\n<p>The influencer brothers deny all accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Their lawyers said last year they would return to the UK to face sexual offence allegations after the proceedings in Romania had concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Additional sources \u2022 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 26\/03\/2026 &#8211; 19:56 GMT+1 A British police force said on Thursday it would reopen a probe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47001,59,57,58,50,288,6276,6277,51292,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-497848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-andrew-tate","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-police","tag-rape","tag-sexual-assault","tag-sexual-violence","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497848","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=497848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}