Newcastle's Carroll Arrested Over Attack on Woman

Newcastle striker Andy Carroll was arrested by police following a late-night assault on a woman, it emerged today. Carroll, 19, accepted a caution following the incident last weekend in Pudding Chare, a narrow street near the city's infamous Bigg Market bars.

Carroll was taken from the scene by officers at 2.30am last Sunday for questioning. A Northumbria police spokeswoman said: "On Sunday, September 14, police were called to the Pudding Chare at 2.26am, to a report that a woman had been assaulted. Officers attended and a 19-year-old man was arrested and later accepted a police caution for assault."

Carroll, an England Under-19 footballer, has been tipped as a star of the future, though he has yet to score in a competitive fixture for Newcastle.