{"id":43776,"date":"2025-02-17T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/assistant-referee-gareth-viccars-charged-with-child-sex-offence-football-news\/17\/02\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T20:45:41","slug":"assistant-referee-gareth-viccars-charged-with-child-sex-offence-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/assistant-referee-gareth-viccars-charged-with-child-sex-offence-football-news\/17\/02\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant referee Gareth Viccars charged with child sex offence | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>An assistant referee who has officiated in EFL and FA Cup matches is due to appear in court charged with a child sex offence.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Viccars is facing one charge of penetrative sexual activity with a girl, aged 13-15.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in Willesden Magistrates Court last week and has been remanded in custody. He&#8217;ll next appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on March 3 where a plea will be entered.<\/p>\n<p>The Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the body responsible for refereeing games in English professional football, suspended Viccars while the police investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the 46-year-old has not officiated this season.<\/p>\n<p>A PGMOL spokesperson has told <em>Sky Sports News: <\/em>&#8220;As soon as the allegations came to light, Mr Viccars was immediately suspended.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the matter is the subject of an ongoing police investigation, we are not in a position to comment any further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sky Sports News<\/em> has contacted the EFL and the FA for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12040\/13311605\/assistant-referee-gareth-viccars-charged-with-child-sex-offence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assistant referee who has officiated in EFL and FA Cup matches is due to appear in court charged with a child<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/assistant-referee-gareth-viccars-charged-with-child-sex-offence-football-news\/17\/02\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[3342,3798,6744,313,910,33,3675,2021,1973,6743],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43778,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43776\/revisions\/43778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}