{"id":1081655,"date":"2026-07-11T00:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1081655\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:40:19","slug":"uk-actor-micheal-ward-acquitted-by-london-jury-of-rape-and-sexual-assault-charges-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1081655\/","title":{"rendered":"UK actor Micheal Ward acquitted by London jury of rape and sexual assault charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON — British actor Micheal Ward was acquitted of rape and other charges Friday in a London court on allegations he sexually assaulted a woman in a Mercedes in 2023. <\/p>\n

Ward, 28, who starred in the Netflix crime drama \u201cTop Boy,\u201d was found not guilty by a jury in Snaresbrook Crown Court of two counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault. <\/p>\n

Ward has appeared in films including \u201cBlue Story,\u201d \u201cThe Book of Clarence\u201d and last year’s American political satire \u201cEddington,\u201d<\/a> alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal. <\/p>\n

In 2020, he won the Rising Star award at the British Academy Film Awards,<\/a> or BAFTAs. He was nominated for an acting BAFTA for Sam Mendes\u2019 \u201cEmpire of Light\u201d and for a BAFTA television award for the Steve McQueen-directbeed series \u201cSmall Axe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ward had denied the charges and had said he had \u201cfull faith\u201d he\u2019d be cleared of the charges.<\/p>\n

Defense lawyer Humzah Ilyas said Ward was \u201clooking forward to getting back to doing the work he loves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON — British actor Micheal Ward was acquitted of rape and other charges Friday in a London court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1081656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,188,393,77,4179,4884,7147,116625,257,3943,34745,16,15,263],"class_list":["post-1081655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-entertainment","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\/116898563793702807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081655","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=1081655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}