{"id":134638,"date":"2016-09-30T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/134638\/man-and-woman-arrested-for-assault\/"},"modified":"2016-09-30T18:12:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:12:41","slug":"man-and-woman-arrested-for-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/30\/man-and-woman-arrested-for-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and woman arrested for assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman from the Delport informal settlement was allegedly assaulted by her boyfriend and neighbour recently.<\/p>\n<p>The pair, aged 33 and 44 years old respectively, were arrested after the incident and charged with assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>While opening her case at the Primrose Police Station, the victim alleged that she had come home from work and found her boyfriend and her neighbour sitting on the bed in their shack.<\/p>\n<p>Upset by the discovery, she left and went to her sister\u2019s shack.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHer boyfriend and neighbour followed her to her sister\u2019s home where they argued and the pair allegedly assaulted her,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was beaten with a baton and a wooden rod, sustaining injures to the upper body.<\/p>\n<p>Using the descriptions given by the woman, the accused were traced and arrested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133988\/woman-murdered-for-her-handbag\/\" target=\"_blank\">Woman murdered for her handbag<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133729\/man-arrested-for-august-kidnapping-and-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested for August kidnapping and murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133875\/siblings-threatened-with-sharp-object-during-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Siblings threatened with sharp object during robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='534bf63e68a586e1582683d3cccabb40'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victim followed to sister\u2019s house by boyfriend and neighbour before being assaulted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":134661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-134638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}