{"id":1149980,"date":"2022-07-15T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/15\/player-rapist-escapes-suspension\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:08:01","slug":"player-rapist-escapes-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/15\/player-rapist-escapes-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Player &#8216;Rapist&#8217; Escapes Suspension &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Premier League player arrested on suspicion of rape has not been suspended and can \u201cfulfil his professional commitments including permitted travel,\u201d his club have said.<\/p>\n<p>The man in his twenties, who has not been named, was arrested in London on July 4 over an alleged attack in June.<\/p>\n<p>He was then further arrested on suspicion of two incidents of rape in 2021 against another woman and has been bailed until August.<\/p>\n<p>The player denies the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of the allegations which are currently the subject of a police investigation,\u201d the club, which has also not been named, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have confirmed that the player denies the allegations and is on police bail pending the outcome of their enquiries. There have been no charges laid and the player can fulfil his professional commitments including permitted travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take our commitments and responsibilities seriously and have followed our safeguarding policies and procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will keep this matter under close consideration and will review further if circumstances change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Premier League player arrested on suspicion of rape has not been suspended and can \u201cfulfil his professional commitments including permitted travel,\u201d his club have said. The man in his twenties, who has not been named, was arrested in London on July 4 over an alleged attack in June. He was then further arrested on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[373,731,4213,1995],"class_list":["post-1149980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-escapes","tag-player","tag-rapist","tag-suspension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}