{
  "id": 623231,
  "title": "Western Power stands down three employees for supporting rapist colleague",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/western-power-stands-down-three-employees-for-supporting-rapist",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T02:34:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
    "slug": "the-sydney-morning-herald",
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/national/western-australia/western-power-stands-down-three-employees-for-supporting-rapist-colleague-20260812-p60nnp.html?ref=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Three employees of Western Power have been stood down for supporting a colleague who is a rapist. The support took the form of letters written to help reduce the man's sentence. These letters were widely criticised as an \"appalling\" and \"terrible lapse in judgement\".\n\nThe criticism was reported by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, which both used the same wording to describe the reaction to the letters.\n\nThere was no connection found between Western Power and the unrelated report on planned maintenance works by the Electricity Company of Ghana.",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
        "title": "ECG announces power outages in Central, Eastern and Western Regions on Thursday",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/ecg-announces-power-outages-in-central-eastern-and-western-regions-on",
        "published": "2026-08-11T21:06:40.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Age",
        "title": "Western Power stands down three employees for supporting rapist colleague",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/western-power-stands-down-three-employees-for-supporting-rapist-623315",
        "published": "2026-08-12T02:34:23.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}