{"id":22877,"date":"2025-04-15T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22877\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:14:12","slug":"woman-sexually-assaulted-in-bristol-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22877\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sexually assaulted in Bristol city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect fled the scene on a bike but has since been arrested and charged<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_IBP_NEC_260722police_02JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Police file picture\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police file picture(Image: Newcastle Chronicle)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man has been charged after a woman was sexually assaulted in Bristol last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The attack happened on a woman on her 20s in Frog Lane during the early hours of Sunday, March 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The suspect then left the area on a bike, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man was later arrested in connection with this investigation by officers carrying regular night-time economy patrols in the city centre on Saturday, April 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Oleksandr Dihacov, who lives in Cotham, was subsequently charged with two sexual assault offences and one count of voyeurism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 39-year-old appeared before Bristol Magistrates\u2019 Court yesterday (Monday, April 14).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was remanded and will appear at Bristol Crown Court on Monday, May 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Avon and Somerset Police said: &#8220;Anyone who reports a sexual offence is entitled to anonymity from the moment police are informed and we can help them access support services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Details of independent support groups who are available to rape and sexual assault victims, regardless of whether they report the offence to police, can be found on our website.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect fled the scene on a bike but has since been arrested and chargedPolice file picture(Image: Newcastle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,14486,188,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-22877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cotham","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114343815648049509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22877","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=22877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}