Soccer-Man United’s Greenwood charged with tried rape, assault By Reuters

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -British prosecutors mentioned on Saturday Manchester United soccer participant Mason Greenwood had been charged with tried rape, controlling behaviour and assault.

The 21-year-old was arrested in January after social media photographs and movies had been posted by a girl reporting incidents of bodily violence.

“The Crown Prosecution Service has as we speak authorised Higher Manchester Police to cost Mason Greenwood, 21, with tried rape, partaking in controlling and coercive behaviour, and assault occasioning precise bodily hurt,” prosecutor Janet Potter mentioned in a press release.

“All three counts relate to the identical complainant.”

Greenwood is because of seem at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court docket on Monday.

“Higher Manchester Police has charged and remanded a 21-year-old man with controlling and coercive behaviour, tried rape and Part 47 assault of a girl,” an area police assertion mentioned.

Neither Greenwood nor his representatives have commented at any stage on the allegations in opposition to him.

“The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all involved that legal proceedings in opposition to the defendant are lively and that he has a proper to a good trial,” Potter added.

He stays suspended by his membership, who launched a press release afterward Saturday.

“Manchester United notes that legal prices have been introduced in opposition to Mason Greenwood by the Crown Prosecution Service. He stays suspended by the membership, pending the end result of the judicial course of,” the assertion learn.