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| Brighton and Bournemouth footballers in sex assault inquiry | |
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| Five Brighton and Hove Albion footballers and an AFC Bournemouth player have been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman. | |
| Sussex Police said five men from Brighton and one from Dorset were being questioned about an attack in July. | |
| The force said an 18-year-old man, an 19-year-old, two men aged 20 and one aged 24, all from Brighton, and a 20-year-old from Dorset had been arrested. | The force said an 18-year-old man, an 19-year-old, two men aged 20 and one aged 24, all from Brighton, and a 20-year-old from Dorset had been arrested. |
| Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club has not yet commented. | Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club has not yet commented. |
| Former Seagulls' player Steve Cook, who moved to Bournemouth in October, is one of the six men who was arrested, the BBC understands. | |
| A spokesman for Sussex Police said: "All have been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and taken to different custody centres in Sussex where they will be questioned in relation to an alleged sexual assault on a woman in July last year. | |
| "This was reported at the time and the suspects were identified on Friday last week, January 13, leading to these arrests. | |
| "Four of the men were arrested in Brighton at around 4.20am this morning (Thursday), a fifth, also in Brighton at about 7.20am and the sixth in Dorset at 10.30am." |