{"id":37185,"date":"2025-07-25T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37185\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:54:08","slug":"micheal-ward-top-boy-and-eddington-actor-charged-with-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37185\/","title":{"rendered":"Micheal Ward, &#8216;Top Boy&#8217; and &#8216;Eddington&#8217; Actor, Charged With Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBritish actor Micheal Ward, star of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/top-boy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_top-boy_1\" data-tag=\"top-boy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Boy<\/a> and more recently, Ari Aster\u2019s Cannes-debuting film Eddington, has been charged with rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLondon\u2019s Metropolitan Police confirmed on Friday that the 27-year-old actor from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire has been charged with two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault. The offences relate to one woman, the force added, and are reported to have taken place in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWard will appear at Thames Magistrates Court in London on Thursday, Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cOur specialist officers continue to support the woman who has come forward,\u201d said detective superintendent Scott Ware, whose team is leading the Met\u2019s investigation. \u201cWe know investigations of this nature can have significant impact on those who make reports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCatherine Baccas, deputy chief crown prosecutor for CPS London South, said: \u201cHaving carefully reviewed a file of evidence, the Crown Prosecution Service has authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge Micheal Ward, 27, with two counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration, and one count of sexual assault against a woman in January 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe added: \u201cWe remind all concerned that proceedings against the suspect are active and he has a right to a fair trial\u2026 It is vital that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in anyway prejudice these proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe young, Jamaican-born star is best known for his role as Jamie in Netflix\u2019s BAFTA-winning Top Boy. In 2020, he was honored with the British Academy\u2019s rising star award. In 2022, he starred in the\u00a0Sam Mendes\u00a0drama\u00a0Empire of Light, earning a BAFTA nomination in the supporting actor category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEarlier this year, he joined Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler on the Cannes red carpet for the premiere of Aster\u2019s latest neo-Western black comedy Eddington, in which Ward played police officer Michael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British actor Micheal Ward, star of Top Boy and more recently, Ari Aster\u2019s Cannes-debuting film Eddington, has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,2091,30334,1049],"class_list":["post-37185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-top-boy","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}