{"id":120542,"date":"2025-05-21T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120542\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:06:11","slug":"man-31-arrested-and-charged-in-connection-with-montgomery-street-park-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120542\/","title":{"rendered":"Man 31 arrested and charged in connection with Montgomery Street Park attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Detectives investigating the assault of an 18-year-old female in the Montgomery Street Park area last month have made an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place on Tuesday, 29 April 2025 and police patrols in the area were stepped up.<\/p>\n<p>An appeal for information was issued around that time and today, Wednesday 21 May 2025, officers announced that a 31-year-old man has been arrested and charged.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said: \u201cA 31-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with a serious sexual assault in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Tuesday, 29 April, we received a report of an assault on a 18-year-old woman in the Montgomery Street Park area of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday, 22 May, 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/05\/man-31-arrested-and-charged-in-connection-with-montgomery-street-park-attack\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747854371_31_pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/05\/man-31-arrested-and-charged-in-connection-with-montgomery-street-park-attack\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747854371_385_print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/author\/john-hislop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747854371_725_Untitled-design-79.png\" class=\"attachment-100x100 size-100x100\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives investigating the assault of an 18-year-old female in the Montgomery Street Park area last month have made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-120542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-police-scotland","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114547391590323309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120542","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=120542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}