{"id":3624,"date":"2023-11-23T18:03:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T18:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/dani-alves-facing-nine-year-jail-term\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T18:03:39","slug":"dani-alves-facing-nine-year-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/dani-alves-facing-nine-year-jail-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani Alves facing nine-year jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Barcelona and Brazil defender, Dani Alves, is facing nine years in jail if found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EFE news agency, prosecutors are pushing for a long sentence,\u00a3130,000 in damages and 10 years of probation.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the case has finally reached the trial stage in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Alves was arrested on January 20 and has been held in a prison outside Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old denies any wrongdoing and insists the sex was consensual.<\/p>\n<p>Alves was ordered to stand trial earlier this month having changed his testimony on four occasions.<\/p>\n<p>He was denied bail by judges back in January after his arrest for the alleged sexual assault in the bathroom of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on December 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Dani Alves facing nine-year jail term<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona and Brazil defender, Dani Alves, is facing nine years in jail if found guilty of sexually assaulting a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133,15,160],"tags":[5135,5134,180,201],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dani-alves","category-news","category-sport","tag-alves","tag-dani","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}