{"id":136593,"date":"2024-09-17T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/lib-dem-member-suspended-after-arrest-over-sexual-assault-claim\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T17:47:19","slug":"lib-dem-member-suspended-after-arrest-over-sexual-assault-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/lib-dem-member-suspended-after-arrest-over-sexual-assault-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Lib Dem member suspended after arrest over sexual assault claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/4e17\/live\/5f4105e0-7513-11ef-a4ec-7ff6d67faa37.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lib Dem member suspended after arrest over sexual assault claim\" title=\"Lib Dem member suspended after arrest over sexual assault claim\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Liberal Democrats have suspended a man from the party following an allegation of sexual assault during their annual conference in Brighton.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Sussex Police have confirmed a 57-year-old man from Bristol was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault in relation to an alleged incident at Brighton&#8217;s Grand Hotel in the early hours of Tuesday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Liberal Democrats\u2019 &#8220;Glee Club&#8221; event, a highlight of the social calendar during their conference, was taking place at the hotel at the time.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A Lib Dem spokesperson said: &#8220;We are horrified this has happened, we assisted the police in identifying and arresting the suspect and have suspended him from the party.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In a statement Sussex Police said: &#8220;We have arrested a 57-year-old man from Bristol on suspicion of sexual assault by touching in relation to an incident which took place at The Grand Hotel, Kings Road, Brighton.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;He remains in custody at this time.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cd98n073lgdo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberal Democrats have suspended a man from the party following an allegation of sexual assault during their annual conference in Brighton. Sussex Police have confirmed a 57-year-old man from Bristol was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault in relation to an alleged incident at Brighton&#8217;s Grand Hotel in the early hours of Tuesday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/4e17\/live\/5f4105e0-7513-11ef-a4ec-7ff6d67faa37.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[5114,4760,7973,55297,8378,7801,1752,1755],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136595,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136593\/revisions\/136595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}