An African man has been arrested and charged with allegedly choking, assaulting, raping and robbing a prostitute at knifepoint in Sydney.
Police said officers were called to an address on Blaxland Road in Ryde at about 10.50pm on Saturday, and were told on arrival that a woman was threatened by an unknown man wearing a mask and latex gloves and wielding a knife.
The woman handed over cash but the man allegedly physically and sexually assaulted her before leaving the scene, police said.
A 21-year-old man has been arrested in Sydney and charged with robbing and raping a prostitute in the suburb of Ryde. pic.twitter.com/1ExdvTpYrb
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Detectives with the State Crime Command’s Sex Crimes Squad under Strike Force Hollins executed a search warrant in Castle Hill at 8.15am on Wednesday and arrested 21-year-old George Moses Ochieng Raduma.
He was taken to Castle Hill Police station and charged with “aggravated sex assault-inflict actual bodily harm on victim”, “attempted aggravated sexual assault”, “assault occasioning actual bodily harm”, “intentionally choke etc person without consent”, and “robbery armed with offensive weapon”.
Raduma was refused bail to appear in Parramatta Local Court on Thursday, where he was refused bail again, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
His next court appearance in on January 21.
Header image: Left, right, Raduma being taken into the police station (NSW Police).
