{"id":22765,"date":"2013-01-23T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T23:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/broadcaster-hall-charged-rape-230255184.html"},"modified":"2013-01-23T00:02:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T23:02:55","slug":"broadcaster-stuart-hall-charged-with-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/broadcaster-stuart-hall-charged-with-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcaster Stuart Hall charged with rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been charged with rape and 14 counts of indecent assault for a string of alleged historic sex attacks, Lancashire Police have said.<\/p>\n<p>Hall, of Prestbury Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire, was arrested on Tuesday morning after he attended an appointment at a police station.<\/p>\n<p>The 83-year-old is charged with one count of rape allegedly committed in 1976 against a 22-year-old woman and 14 offences of indecent assault against 10 girls aged between nine and 16 which allegedly took place between 1967 and 1986.<\/p>\n<p>He has been bailed to appear before Preston Magistrates&#8217; Court on February 7.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Lancashire Police said: &#8220;Following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service an 83-year-old man has this evening been charged with one offence of rape and 14 offences of indecent assault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stuart Hall, of Prestbury Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire, was arrested this morning after attending a police station in the county by appointment. He has been bailed to appear before magistrates in Preston on February 7 2013.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hall has been a familiar face and voice in British broadcasting for half a century and was this year awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours.<\/p>\n<p>His eccentric and erudite football match summaries have made him a cult figure on BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been charged with rape and 14 counts of indecent assault for a string of alleged historic sex attacks, Lancashire Police have said.<br \/>\nHall, of Prestbury Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire, was arrested on Tuesday morning af&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}