{"id":556436,"date":"2026-04-29T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556436\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:43:10","slug":"man-arrested-after-sexual-assault-near-m1-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556436\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after sexual assault near M1 services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been arrested after a woman was sexually assaulted near a service station on the M1 in Leicestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire Police was called to reports of the assault in Baines Lane &#8211; an access road that links Leicester Forest East services with the A47 Hinckley Road &#8211; between 18:20 and 18:40 BST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said a woman in her 20s was grabbed from behind by a man before being pulled to the ground and sexually assaulted. The man ran away after she shouted for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Detectives arrested a 59-year-old man on suspicion of attempted rape at the same services on Tuesday. He remains in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a woman was sexually assaulted near a service station on the M1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-556436","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\/556436","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=556436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}