Alex police have arrested a taxi driver in connection with an alleged rape that took place at about at 9pm on 3 February.
Police spokesperson Lieutenant Allie Kodisang said the taxi driver and the victim had first met in the morning when he gave her a lift to the Pan Africa Mall and she had asked if he knew of a room she could rent.
After showing her the room that afternoon, the taxi driver and a friend of his took her to her place. But the friend drove off while the driver was helping her carry her groceries. Once inside her room, he sat on the sofa, but when she asked him to leave he allegedly threatened her, telling her he was a dangerous ex-convict.
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He allegedly locked the door, put her keys in his pocket, pushed her towards the sofa, and raped her twice without a condom. She confided in her boyfriend, who, with the help of his friends, caught the suspect the following morning and handed him to the police.
In another incident, a woman was having beers at her sister’s place in 2nd Avenue on 1 February when she got into a fight and a man offered to take her home. But as they were walking, he allegedly grabbed her, choked her, threatened to kill her, and raped her on the pavement without a condom, despite her cries and pleas for him to stop. When he was done, he apologised and walked away. She was treated at the Alex Clinic. The man is still at large.
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In the third incident, a woman was allegedly raped in the early hours of the morning in 7th Avenue on 5 February. She had been drinking at a tavern when a former classmate offered her a lift and gave her a drink that made her pass out. When she woke up in a strange place with an unknown man sleeping next to her at about 6am. In pain and half-naked, she got dressed and crept out of the place. She later noticed that there was ‘fluid’ in her vagina and was treated at a clinic which referred her to the police. No one has been arrested for the incident.
Details: Alex Police Station 011 431 7600.
