The Tribune

By AVA TURNQUEST

Tribune Staff Reporter

aturnquest@tribunemedia.net

A FEMALE motorist was raped in the Carmichael Road area early yesterday morning, police said.

The woman was sexually assaulted at a track road off Bacardi Road after a man jumped into the back seat of her car and held “an object” to her head sometime around 1:40am, police reported.

According to police, the man got into the car as she stopped to allow another vehicle to exit in the area of a service station.

The man ordered her to drive to a track road off Bacardi Road, where he raped her.

According to the police, the victim was then forced to drive the man to Yellow Elder Gardens, where he got out of the vehicle.

Last week police reported that another woman motorist was held up and sexually assaulted by men driving a stolen taxi van. At the time it was reported that there were four men in the van.

According to police, the woman was driving on Mackey Street in a black Honda vehicle, when a man armed with a handgun, robbed her of her car and forced her into a silver coloured Toyota Hiace taxi van, which had been stolen about an hour earlier, and which was occupied by three other men. The men then drove off with the victim and forced her to have oral sex with them, police said. The woman escaped from the men in the Blue Hill Heights area.

The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning, September 28, around 6am when two of the four men held up the taxi owner at his home, threatened him with death, ransacked his house, tied him up in a closet and drove off in his van.

Police are appealing for anyone with information that might assist investigations into these matters to anonymously call 919 or Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS (8477) on New Providence or 1-242-300-8476 in the Family Islands.