A Middle Eastern man has been charged with after allegedly breaking into a woman’s home and raping her in a tiny town in South Australia.
South Australia Police said they were called to the home in Mount Pleasant in the Adelaide Hills at about 3am on Wednesday and launched a search of the area for the suspect, who was eventually arrested inside a bakery on town’s main street at 10.30am.
The 27-year-old, who lives in Salisbury in Adelaide’s north, was charged with aggravated serious criminal trespass and rape and refused bail to appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court on Thursday.
The victim did not know her alleged attacker, and investigators believe the alleged rape was an isolated incident and said no other suspects are being sought.
A ute believed to have been used by the suspect, a white 2000 Mazda Bravo, was found in Adelaide’s north-eastern suburbs.
Police are now asking anyone who saw the man or interacted with him in the 24 hours before the arrest to come forward, and described him as being of “Middle Eastern appearance, 175cm tall, with short black hair, unshaven and wearing a black shirt and sandy coloured pants”.
Footage obtained by 7News shows officers running through the town, which has a population of about 600 people, to arrest the man at the Mt Pleasant Bakery & Cafe, where workers said he asked about a job that was advertised on a sign in the window.
Header image: The suspect’s white 2000 Mazda Bravo utility, registration S581CMW (SA Police).
