{"id":418620,"date":"2025-09-12T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418620\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:10:16","slug":"harrogate-rape-suspect-could-be-sleeping-on-streets-in-leeds-say-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418620\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrogate rape suspect could be sleeping on streets in Leeds, say police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police believe a wanted <a href=\"https:\/\/thestrayferret.co.uk\/in-your-area\/harrogate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harrogate<\/a> man could be sleeping on the streets in Leeds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northyorkshire.police.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Yorkshire Police<\/a> has been trying to locate Clifford Church since last month following the reported rape of a woman in Harrogate on August 7.<\/p>\n<p>In a renewed appeal, the force believes the 62-year-old suspect is in Leeds and could be sleeping on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Officers believe people using the city\u2019s bus station, the city\u2019s Kirkgate Market, and the homeless population in the city centre may have encountered Church, who has distinctive tattoos.<\/p>\n<p>Church has a number of tattoos, including a dot on his left check and a half-inch line to his eyebrow, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police believe a wanted Harrogate man could be sleeping on the streets in Leeds. North Yorkshire Police has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-418620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115191731187266908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418620","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=418620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}