{"id":917050,"date":"2022-01-17T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/court-appearance-for-rape-accused-brackenfell-cop-delayed-after-he-had-to-go-to-hospital\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:08:35","slug":"court-appearance-for-rape-accused-brackenfell-cop-delayed-after-he-had-to-go-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/17\/court-appearance-for-rape-accused-brackenfell-cop-delayed-after-he-had-to-go-to-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Court appearance for rape-accused Brackenfell cop delayed after he had to go to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1642428515_157_8b8b13a5-9455-50c1-a96d-67db3b4d5968&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=18x0&#038;resize=1972x1109.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Cape Town &#8211; The Blue Downs Magistrate\u2019s Court has postponed the first court appearance of the Brackenfell police officer accused of sexually assaulting a young woman on a farm in Stellenbosch to later this week.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, who was set to appear in court today following his arrest last week Friday, is now set to appear on Thursday, January 20. He is accused of raping a 26-year-old woman who sought assistance in a case of domestic violence at her home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The woman said the officer raped her at Bottelary Farm in Stellenbosch after indicating that he would take her to her friend\u2019s home in Kraaifontein.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) announced at the weekend that the suspect had been arrested after he returned to the Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p>Ipid said the changes to his court appearance this morning because the police officer had fallen ill the night before his appearance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ipid spokesperson Grace Langa said: \u201cThe case of the Brackenfell rape-accused police officer has been postponed to Thursday due to the accused being admitted to hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[email&nbsp;protected]<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-90b97a1a56b77cd3f875f08209cddfa6\">Cape Argus<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town &#8211; The Blue Downs Magistrate\u2019s Court has postponed the first court appearance of the Brackenfell police officer accused of sexually assaulting a young woman on a farm in Stellenbosch to later this week. The officer, who was set to appear in court today following his arrest last week Friday, is now set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917050","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=917050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}