Ex-Arsenal midfielder, Thomas Partey, faces rape, sexual assault charges in UK
Extinct Arsenal midfielder, Thomas Partey, has been charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, basically based on a press free up launched by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on Friday.
The costs disclose to allegations made by three diversified women, bearing on incidents that allegedly came about between 2021 and 2022. Partey, 32, is attributable to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket on August 5.
Jaswant Narwal, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the CPS, confirmed the costs in an legitimate assertion: “The Crown Prosecution Service has at the present time popular the prosecution of Thomas Partey for loads of counts of rape – after in moderation reviewing a total file of evidence. Our prosecutors hang labored intently with officers within the Metropolitan Police who hang performed the investigation, to evaluate the evidence and disclose on the good charges.”
Narwal also confused the significance of shielding the judicial direction of: “We remind every person that prison lawsuits are active, and the defendant has the comely to an even trial. All of us know there'll be well-known public hobby on this announcement, but it absolutely is de facto very crucial that there is no longer any reporting, commentary or sharing of recordsdata online which might maybe maybe well in anyway prejudice these lawsuits.”
Partey, born in Krobo Odumase, Ghana, in June 1993, began his European profession at Atlético Madrid in 2012. After loan spells at Mallorca and Leganés, he returned to Atlético, the place he made 188 appearances and helped the crew steal the Europa League in 2018 and La Liga in 2021.
He transferred to Arsenal in October 2020 for £forty five million, signing a four-365 days deal. He featured prominently in Mikel Arteta’s midfield, making 33 appearances within the 2022–2023 season as Arsenal performed 2nd within the Premier League.
Injuries dinky his role the following 365 days, but he returned to fracture in his remaining season, taking half in 52 times all the contrivance through all competitions as Arsenal reached the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup and Champions League, and performed 2nd to Liverpool within the league.
Partey has earned fifty three caps for the Ghana national crew, scoring 15 targets.
