{"id":659332,"date":"2026-06-26T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659332\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:05:08","slug":"comedian-hardeep-singh-kohli-to-stand-trial-for-rape-and-sex-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659332\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli to stand trial for rape and sex offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final rape is said to have happened at one of the east end addresses on 20 June 2021 when the woman was &#8220;intoxicated, drifting in and out of consciousness and incapable of consenting&#8221; at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kohli separately faces four sexual assault charges involving the same female.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These include a claim he got her to wear a blindfold during one incident and spat on her during another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kohli is further accused engaging in a course of abusive behaviour with the woman over a two-year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This includes accusations he asked for intimate images of her, wanted to know about previous relationships, tracked her movements and hounded her with calls and texts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is also alleged he &#8220;coerced&#8221; the woman into giving him money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court papers further state that he locked her out of his house, turned up uninvited at her home and threw out food she had made him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kohli is also charged with communicating indecently with the woman and sending her photos of semi-naked females.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The initial charges on the indictment are that Kohli indecently assaulted another woman at the BBC Scotland studios in Glasgow as well as in the Radisson Hotel in the city&#8217;s Argyle Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final rape is said to have happened at one of the east end addresses on 20 June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-659332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659332","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=659332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}