{"id":1081077,"date":"2026-07-10T18:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1081077\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:18:15","slug":"uk-actor-micheal-ward-acquitted-by-london-jury-of-rape-and-sexual-assault-charges-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1081077\/","title":{"rendered":"UK actor Micheal Ward acquitted by London jury of rape and sexual assault charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"35LML2EQHBAAZFQ7B5JRVLFHRY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">LONDON \u2014 British actor Micheal Ward was acquitted Friday of rape and other charges in a London court on allegations he sexually assaulted a woman in the back of a friend\u2019s Mercedes in 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PM7FCTIRXRHZVHSVXGFPFY7FWM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Ward, 28, who starred in the Netflix crime drama \u201cTop Boy,\u201d sobbed after a jury in Snaresbrook Crown Court found him not guilty of two counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 British actor Micheal Ward was acquitted Friday of rape and other charges in a London court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1081078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,188,393,77,295879,4179,4884,7147,116625,257,3943,34745,16,15,263],"class_list":["post-1081077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-eu-britain-actor-charged","tag-general-news","tag-great-britain","tag-indictments","tag-juries","tag-london","tag-movies","tag-sexual-assault","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116897061720485027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}