{"id":600991,"date":"2026-05-24T06:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600991\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T06:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:14:19","slug":"two-more-men-from-danbury-charged-in-essex-sex-offences-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600991\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more men from Danbury charged in Essex sex offences inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two more men have been charged as part of an investigation into rape, sexual offences and human trafficking for exploitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richard Howard-Smith, 35, a town councillor in Maldon, and Eldred Reames, 24, both of Southwood Chase, Danbury, in Essex, were arrested on Thursday and have now been charged with multiple offences including rape and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were in custody and were expected to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates&#8217; Court on Saturday, a spokesperson for Essex Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the investigation, officers have searched Maldon and Tiptree Football Club and other locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two more men have been charged as part of an investigation into rape, sexual offences and human trafficking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-600991","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\/600991","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=600991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}