{"id":711237,"date":"2026-07-26T00:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711237\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:02:14","slug":"two-rochdale-park-sex-attacks-may-be-linked-say-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711237\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Rochdale park sex attacks may be linked, say police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Detectives are appealing for information after two women reported being sexually assaulted in separate attacks, which police believe may be related.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 06:15 BST, officers received a report a woman had been sexually assaulted in Broadfield Park, Rochdale, by a man she did not know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A second sexual assault report was made at 08:38 by a woman who was attacked in Milnrow Memorial Park, again by a man she did not know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both victims have provided a similar description of the suspect, who was a black male believed to have been wearing a three piece suit or smart black clothes and a dark coat and carrying a briefcase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Manchester Police have identified CCTV footage of a man matching the description in the Ko-Ko Lounge in Rochdale town centre, who was seen leaving the venue at about 05:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Detectives are appealing for anyone who may have seen a man matching this description, or who has CCTV, dashcam, doorbell, or mobile phone footage from the  town centre, Broadfield Park or Milnrow Memorial Park areas to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Ch Insp Thomas Willis said: &#8220;Detectives are pursuing a number of lines of enquiry and we are committed to identifying whoever is responsible and bringing them to justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives are appealing for information after two women reported being sexually assaulted in separate attacks, which police believe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711237","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\/711237","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=711237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}