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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Suzanne Wrack

Met police hand over ‘full file’ to CPS on Premier League player accused of rape

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The Premier League player involved was first arrested on suspicion of rape in July 2022. Photograph: Stephen White/CameraSport/Getty Images

The Metropolitan police have handed a “full file” of evidence on a Premier League footballer accused of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service.

The player, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was first arrested on suspicion of rape in July 2022 at an address in Barnet and was rearrested while in custody following allegations of two more incidents of rape, taking place in April and June 2021, by another woman. Since then he has been released on bail, which has been repeatedly extended, and was questioned further in November. Meanwhile, the police confirmed a technicality meant it would be taking no further action over the incident that took place in June 2021.

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