{"id":950854,"date":"2026-05-10T17:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950854\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:17:33","slug":"woman-55-arrested-after-broad-daylight-assault-in-leicester-residential-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950854\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 55, arrested after broad daylight assault in Leicester residential street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several properties have been cordoned off in Westcotes<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_Police-received-a-report-of-a-man-being-assaulted-in-Sweetbriar-Road-Westcotes-Leicester.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Police received a report of a man being assaulted in Sweetbriar Road, Westcotes, Leicester.\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Police received a report of a man being assaulted in Sweetbriar Road, Westcotes, Leicester.(Image: Leicester Media Online)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Several homes have been cordoned off by police after reports that a man was <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">assaulted<\/a> in broad daylight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/all-about\/leicestershire-police\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Leicestershire Police <\/a>were called at 11.25am on Sunday, May 10 to an incident in Sweetbriar Road, Westcotes, Leicester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Officers said the report related to the assault of a man in the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">There is a large police presence in <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/all-about\/westcotes\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Sweetbriar Road<\/a>, with officers and multiple vehicles present.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_A-cordon-has-been-put-in-place-in-front-of-several-homes.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"A cordon has been put in place in front of several homes.\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">A cordon has been put in place in front of several homes.(Image: Leicester Media Online)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The force said a 51-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of section 18 grievous bodily harm with intent. She remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A 33-year-old man was taken to <a aria-label=\"hospitalLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/all-about\/leicester-hospitals\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">hospital<\/a> for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A police cordon remains in place which covers several homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police say an investigation is in its very early stages, and officers are carrying out inquiries locally to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_Officers-are-carrying-out-enquiries-locally-to-establish-the-full-circumstances-surrounding-the-in.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Officers are carrying out enquiries locally to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident.\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Officers are carrying out enquiries locally to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident.(Image: Leicester Media Online)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Anyone with information which may assist detectives is asked to contact police by calling 101 or visiting their website, quoting crime number 26*269047.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several properties have been cordoned off in Westcotes Police received a report of a man being assaulted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[188,378,265422,63347,12,16,15,265421],"class_list":{"0":"post-950854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-in-the-news","11":"tag-leicester-hospitals","12":"tag-leicestershire-police","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-westcotes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116551422184955777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950854","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=950854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}