{"id":44094,"date":"2022-06-29T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/suspect-in-court-accused-of-murder-attempted-rape-and-robbery-of-zara-aleena"},"modified":"2022-06-29T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:05:54","slug":"suspect-in-court-accused-of-murder-attempted-rape-and-robbery-of-zara-aleena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/suspect-in-court-accused-of-murder-attempted-rape-and-robbery-of-zara-aleena","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in court accused of murder, attempted rape and robbery of Zara Aleena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old man has appeared in court accused of the murder, attempted rape and robbery of Zara Aleena as her family paid moving tribute to the law graduate.Jordan McSweeney, of Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, east London, is accused of killing the 35-year-old as she walked home from a night-out along Cranbrook Road in Ilford, east London, in the early hours of Sunday.He appeared briefly at Thames Magistrates&#8217; Court on Wednesday, wearing a grey tracksuit and speaking only to confirm his name, date of birth and address.No plea was indicated.Zara Aleena, who was killed on her way home in the early hours of Sunday (Family handout\/PA) (PA Media)Earlier, Ms Aleena&#8217;s family released a powerful tribute in which they said she was a keen walker and believed women should be safe on the streets.In a statement issued through police, they said: &#8220;She walked everywhere. She put her party shoes in a bag and donned her trainers. She walked.&#8220;Zara believed that a woman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old man has appeared in court accused of the murder, attempted rape and robbery of Zara Aleena as her family paid moving tribute to the law graduate. Jordan McSweeney,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-44094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}