{"id":9180,"date":"2017-09-19T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2017-09-19T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:46:45","slug":"man-appears-court-accused-1972-sex-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/09\/19\/man-appears-court-accused-1972-sex-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Man appears in court accused of 1972 sex attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A man accused of raping and kidnapping an 18-year-old woman more than 40 years ago has appeared in court.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Pickering, 79, is charged with the rape and false imprisonment of the woman in Deepcar, near Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared at Leeds Magistrates&#8217; Court via video link earlier, speaking only to confirm his name and date of birth.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pickering, of Newbury, Berkshire, was remanded in custody to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 16 October.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged in August following a review of cold cases by West Yorkshire Police.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-south-yorkshire-41323317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A man accused of raping and kidnapping an 18-year-old woman more than 40 years ago has appeared in court. Peter Pickering, 79, is charged with the rape and false imprisonment of the woman in Deepcar, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/09\/19\/man-appears-court-accused-1972-sex-attack\/\" title=\"Man appears in court accused of 1972 sex attack\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[4177,4174,4175,4176,20,4178],"class_list":{"0":"post-9180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-uk","9":"tag-deepcar","10":"tag-leeds","11":"tag-magistrates-court","12":"tag-peter-pickering","13":"tag-rape","14":"tag-south-yorkshire","15":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9182,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions\/9182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}