{"id":172988,"date":"2015-08-14T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=172988"},"modified":"2015-08-14T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:20:14","slug":"%e2%80%8bformer-labour-peer-court-child-sex-abuse-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/%e2%80%8bformer-labour-peer-court-child-sex-abuse-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u2039Former Labour peer in court over child sex abuse charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A former senior British politician has appeared in a court in London\u00a0<span style=\"color: #404040;\">to face historical child sex abuse charges.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Labour peer, Lord Janner, arrived at Westminster magistrates\u2019 court in central London in connection with 22 sex abuse charges spanning over 30 years between 1960s and 1980s.This is his first appearance in the court over sex abuse allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Janner had initially failed to attend the hearing, despite a High Court order asking him to attend the proceeding on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Janner&#8217;s lawyer wanted him to appear via video link, but the <span style=\"color: #404040;\">prosecutor rejected the request saying such a procedure is only permitted for someone in the police custody.Prosecutor,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #404040;\">Louise Oakley<\/span>,<span style=\"color: #404040;\">\u00a0however, suggested the peer could appear at Wood Green Crown Court instead, a court closer to his home.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/08\/14\/424684\/Lord-Janner-faces-child-sex-abuse-trial--\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former senior British politician has appeared in a court in London\u00a0to face historical child sex abuse charges. Former Labour peer, Lord Janner, arrived at Westminster magistrates\u2019 court in central London in connection with 22 sex abuse charges spanning over 30 years between 1960s and 1980s.This is his first appearance in the court over sex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}