{"id":552262,"date":"2026-04-26T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552262\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:28:11","slug":"assault-in-lane-close-to-m1-prompts-police-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552262\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault in lane close to M1 prompts police appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sexual assault of a woman in a lane close to the M1 in Leicestershire has prompted an appeal from police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers said the victim, who is in her 20s, was in Baines Lane &#8211; an access road off the A47 Hinckley Road, near the southbound M1 Leicester Forest East services &#8211; at about 18:45 BST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was pulled to the ground and assaulted but when she began shouting for help, the attacker ran off towards the services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police have asked anyone who saw a white man in his 50s, of a slim build with grey hair and a grey beard, wearing a black and white short sleeved top in the area at the time, to get in touch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sexual assault of a woman in a lane close to the M1 in Leicestershire has prompted an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-552262","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\/552262","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=552262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}