{"id":11688,"date":"2023-02-02T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11688"},"modified":"2023-02-02T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:37:10","slug":"uk-police-drop-charges-against-greenwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11688","title":{"rendered":"UK Police Drop Charges Against Man Utd Forward, Greenwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The United Kingdom police have dropped all charges against embattled Manchester United footballer, Mason Greenwood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 21-year-old forward faced allegations of attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour, and assault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to SkyNews, the trial date had been set for November 27, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Greater Manchester Police, said, \u201ccriminal proceedings had been discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">TGMP\u2019s Head of Public Protection, Michaela Kerr, said, \u201cit was \u2018only fair\u2019 that the force publicised the latest development given the significant media coverage of this case.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She added, \u201cThe investigation team has remained in regular contact with the legal team, providing any updates of note, and so understand the rationale for the discontinuation of proceedings at this stage, and that this decision has not been taken lightly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cDespite the media and public\u2019s interest in this case, we have decided not to comment on it in any further detail,\u201d she maintained.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom police have dropped all charges against embattled Manchester United footballer, Mason Greenwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6351,4266,6350],"class_list":["post-11688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-greenwood","tag-man-utd","tag-uk-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11690,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions\/11690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}