{"id":360651,"date":"2025-08-20T23:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360651\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:46:19","slug":"man-named-and-charged-with-sexual-offences-against-children-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360651\/","title":{"rendered":"Man named and charged with sexual offences against children in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defendant did not enter a plea<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Bristol-Magistrates-COurtJPG.jpg\" alt=\"Bristol Magistrates' Court\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court(Image: Michael Lloyd Photography)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man has appeared in court charged with sexual offences against children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Nathan Bennett, 30 and of Corston, appeared at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/courts\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court<\/a> on Friday, August 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was charged with eight counts of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual offences<\/a> against children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Bennett did not enter a plea and will appear at Bristol Crown Court on Friday, September 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The allegations relate to incidents in Bristol earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The families of the children are aware and are being supported, said <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-and-somerset-constabulary\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Avon and Somerset Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The charges came after a six-month investigation by specialist officers, leading to the further arrest of Bennett on Thursday, August 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for the force said: &#8220;A man has been remanded into custody following an appearance at Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court on child sexual offence charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Nathan Bennett, 30, of Corston, appeared in court on Friday, August 15, charged with eight counts of sexual offences against children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The charges come after a six-month investigation by specialist officers, leading to the further arrest of the defendant on August 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The allegations all relate to incidents in Bristol earlier this year. The children&#8217;s families are aware and are being supported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The defendant did not enter a plea and will next appear at Bristol Crown Court on September 19.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defendant did not enter a pleaBristol Magistrates&#8217; Court(Image: Michael Lloyd Photography) A man has appeared in court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,30,188,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-360651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115063762845228378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360651","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=360651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}