{"id":20997,"date":"2013-07-08T23:34:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T21:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/footballer-ranger-faces-court-on-rape-charge\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T23:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T21:34:20","slug":"footballer-ranger-faces-court-on-rape-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/footballer-ranger-faces-court-on-rape-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Footballer Ranger faces court on rape charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=8203\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8203  \" alt=\"Nile Ranger, the former Newcastle United striker. Photo: Owen Humphreys \/ PA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fa043_Nile-Ranger-008.jpg\" width=\"373\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nile Ranger, the former Newcastle United striker. Photo: Owen Humphreys \/ PA<\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/llambias-resigns-as-managing-director-of-newcastle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle United<\/a> player, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nile Ranger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nile_Ranger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Nile Ranger<\/a>, has been charged with rape.<\/p>\n<p>The London-born 22-year-old will appear in court next month following an investigation by Northumbria police.<\/p>\n<p>The force said: \u201cA rape was reported to police on Thursday, January 24, and relates to an incident which happened in the early hours of Wednesday, January 23, at a hotel in Jesmond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNile Ranger, 22, of Harringay, London, has been charged with rape. He is due to appear before Newcastle magistrates court on 21 August.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/e0ced_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nile Ranger, the former Newcastle United striker. Photo: Owen Humphreys \/ PA Former Newcastle United player, Nile Ranger, has been charged with rape. The London-born 22-year-old will appear in court next month following an investigation by Northumbria police. The force said: \u201cA rape was reported to police on Thursday, January 24, and relates to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-20997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}