It has been widely reported that 5 Albion players, as well as 1 Bournemouth player, were arrested yesterday in connection with an alleged sexual assault.
Those players have since been released on bail.
Some media outlets are naming those players. At the time of writing, the BBC are reporting those players to be Lewis Dunk, Tommy Elphick, Anton Rodgers, George Barker and Ben Sampayo.
No charges have been brought. All names associated with this incident are currently seen as completely innocent.
When these stories break, NSC becomes a difficult site to manage. Run for the love of the club and staffed by moderators who do the job without reward, we have no access to media lawyers to help us keep on the straight and narrow. As such some may view our stance as overly cautious. We respect such views, of course, but we also ask you respect our rules as to what can be discussed.
With today's turn of events and associated media exposure, it is futile to try and stop all discussion relating to this incident so we are now going to permit it, within very strict guidelines. Please adhere to these rules if you wish to continue using NSC.
- This is to the be only thread for these discussions - this will help the moderating process. All subsequent threads will be immediately deleted or merged.
- There shall be no speculation as to who did what to whom and when.
- There shall be no speculation as to the alleged victim's identity
- Users should remember at all times that there has been no charges and no convictions.
You should strongly consider this post before passing any comment.You are responsible for all you write. If required all of your user details, email address and IP addresses would be surrendered to a legal authority.
Simply - please use some common sense with each and every post. Any offenders who post speculation will receive an immediate life ban from NSC - no leniency will be shown to anyone. No appeals will be listened to. If in doubt - don't post.
Those players have since been released on bail.
Some media outlets are naming those players. At the time of writing, the BBC are reporting those players to be Lewis Dunk, Tommy Elphick, Anton Rodgers, George Barker and Ben Sampayo.
No charges have been brought. All names associated with this incident are currently seen as completely innocent.
When these stories break, NSC becomes a difficult site to manage. Run for the love of the club and staffed by moderators who do the job without reward, we have no access to media lawyers to help us keep on the straight and narrow. As such some may view our stance as overly cautious. We respect such views, of course, but we also ask you respect our rules as to what can be discussed.
With today's turn of events and associated media exposure, it is futile to try and stop all discussion relating to this incident so we are now going to permit it, within very strict guidelines. Please adhere to these rules if you wish to continue using NSC.
- This is to the be only thread for these discussions - this will help the moderating process. All subsequent threads will be immediately deleted or merged.
- There shall be no speculation as to who did what to whom and when.
- There shall be no speculation as to the alleged victim's identity
- Users should remember at all times that there has been no charges and no convictions.
You should strongly consider this post before passing any comment.You are responsible for all you write. If required all of your user details, email address and IP addresses would be surrendered to a legal authority.
Simply - please use some common sense with each and every post. Any offenders who post speculation will receive an immediate life ban from NSC - no leniency will be shown to anyone. No appeals will be listened to. If in doubt - don't post.
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