{"id":211817,"date":"2025-12-02T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/211817\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:48:09","slug":"former-england-and-premier-league-footballer-arrested-on-suspicion-of-attempted-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/211817\/","title":{"rendered":"Former England and Premier League footballer arrested on suspicion of attempted rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A former England and Premier League footballer has been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The man, who played for the national team in the 2010s, was stopped at Stansted Airport in Essex on Sunday,  The Sun reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was reportedly pulled aside by Border Force officers as he was walking through passport control to board a flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Essex Police were alerted and the man was driven to a local police station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             The Sun reported that he had been wanted by police over a non-recent allegation of attempted rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An Essex Police spokesperson said: \u201cA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape and has been bailed to a date in late February 2026 while we continue our inquiries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former England and Premier League footballer has been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape. The man, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[27,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-211817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115651471853395065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}