{"id":710337,"date":"2026-07-25T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710337\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:26:08","slug":"man-arrested-after-asda-wakefield-sex-assault-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710337\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after Asda Wakefield sex assault report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the kitchen aisle of an Asda supermarket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Yorkshire Police said they were called to the store on Asdale Road in Wakefield at about 15:45 BST on Thursday to reports of the assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said they believed a woman who was shopping in the kitchen aisle confronted a man after the alleged incident. They asked her or anyone else with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force confirmed a 28-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and assault of a police officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the kitchen aisle of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710337","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\/710337","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=710337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}