{"id":72129,"date":"2025-08-05T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72129"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:06:11","slug":"thomas-partey-granted-bail-over-multiple-sex-offence-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/05\/thomas-partey-granted-bail-over-multiple-sex-offence-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Partey Granted Bail Over Multiple Sex Offence Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey has been released on conditional bail after a brief appearance at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court over multiple sexual offence charges.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Ghanaian faces five rape charges and one sexual assault charge, involving three women between 2021 and 2022. Partey denies all allegations.<\/p>\n<p>He was not required to enter a plea but acknowledged the charges and bail conditions. The case moves to the Old Bailey on September 2.<\/p>\n<p>Though arrested in July 2022, Partey\u2019s identity remained undisclosed until now. He continued playing for Arsenal during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, Jenny Wiltshire, stated: \u201cThomas Partey denies all charges and has fully cooperated with authorities. He looks forward to clearing his name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Partey\u2019s \u00a345 million Arsenal deal ended on June 30, with the club declining comment due to legal proceedings. He made 52 appearances last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Former Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey has been released on conditional bail after a brief appearance at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court over multiple sexual offence charges. The 32-year-old Ghanaian faces five rape charges and one sexual assault charge, involving three women between 2021 and 2022. Partey denies all allegations. He was not required to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72131,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72129\/revisions\/72131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}