{"id":643219,"date":"2025-12-20T00:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/643219\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:29:13","slug":"man-charged-after-spate-of-sexual-assaults-in-edinburghs-stockbridge-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/643219\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after spate of sexual assaults in Edinburgh&#8217;s Stockbridge area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man has been charged following six reported sexual assaults in the same area of Edinburgh. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first incident occurred in the Stockbridge area at around 5.20pm on Friday, December 12, on Fettes Row, where a woman was approached from behind by a man who sexually assaulted her and made sexual comments.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately ten minutes later, at around 5.30pm, a second woman was walking her dog on Inverleith Row when she was approached from behind and sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then walked down Inverleith Row towards Dundas Street.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, a third woman was assaulted as she walked past Stockbridge Church on Saxe Coburg Street. During this incident, the man sexually assaulted the woman and exposed himself.<\/p>\n<p>Three further incidents were reported thereafter in the Dean Bank Lane and Royal Crescent areas.<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with the incidents. He is expected to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday, December 22.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Dougal Begg said: \u201cWe know these incidents caused concern in the local community and I would like to thank members of the public for their support during our enquiries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged following six reported sexual assaults in the same area of Edinburgh. The first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-643219","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-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115749072327609119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643219","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=643219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}