{"id":567002,"date":"2026-05-05T07:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567002\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:17:15","slug":"police-launch-hunt-after-incident-on-west-sussex-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567002\/","title":{"rendered":"Police launch hunt after incident on West Sussex train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  British Transport Police said that on the evening of Wednesday, April 1, a woman was on a train with her young daughter between London Victoria and Horsham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They went to use the toilet when she saw a man who was sat down and looked as if he were asleep. He had his hand down his trousers and appeared to be masturbating, police said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police have now released an image of a man they&#8217;d like to speak to.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Officers believe the man in the image could have information that may assist their enquiries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anyone who recognises him is asked to text BTP on 61016, or call 0800 40 50 40, using the reference 758 of 1 April.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Information can be given anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Transport Police said that on the evening of Wednesday, April 1, a woman was on a train&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-567002","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\/567002","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=567002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}