{"id":70972,"date":"2014-10-17T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70972\/man-assaulted-for-talking-to-ex-girlfriend\/"},"modified":"2014-10-17T08:42:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T06:42:36","slug":"man-assaulted-for-talking-to-ex-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/17\/man-assaulted-for-talking-to-ex-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Man assaulted for talking to ex-girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men was arrested in the Makause informal settlement and charged with assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made on Monday, October 6, after the victim reported the attack to officers at the Primrose Police Station.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The complainant alleged that he had met his ex-girlfriend while he was walking in the informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>She was accompanied by her new boyfriend and two of his friends.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The victim asked to speak to his ex-girlfriend, to discuss when he could retrieve the clothes she had taken when they had broken up.<\/p>\n<p>Her boyfriend would not allow them to talk and dragged the woman away.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later the three friends returned and started hitting the victim with bricks and a hammer.<\/p>\n<p>Officer were able to trace one of the accused and arrested him.<\/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='7c08483bce7910446bdd1788e5a29f23'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man attacked by three assailants after attempting to talk to his ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":70999,"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":[1041,1397,1321,2731,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-70972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-assault","tag-assault-gbh","tag-assault-with-intent-to-cause-grievous-bodily-harm","tag-community-2","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","assault","assault GBH","Assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm","community","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\/70972","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=70972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}