NSW: Man charged over home invasion, sexual attack

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2007
NSW: Man charged over home invasion, sexual attack

SYDNEY, Aug 24 AAP - A 26-year-old man has been charged with aggravated sexual assault
and a string of other offences over an attack on a woman in her south-western Sydney home
in June.

Police, working as part of Strike Force Errica, arrested the man after stopping a vehicle
in Canley Value at about 8.30pm (AEST) yesterday.

He was charged over the home invasion on June 28 at Mt Vernon.

"The 24-year-old woman was asleep inside a granny flat at the rear of a property when
she was confronted by a male intruder about 1am (AEST)," NSW Police said in a statement
today.

"The woman was sexually assaulted before the intruder left the house in her Hyundai Excel sedan."

The man was last night taken to Cabramatta Police Station and questioned.

He was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault, two counts of aggravated
kidnapping and also aggravated robbery.

Further charges include break and enter to commit a serious indictable offence, assault
occasioning actual bodily harm, four counts of indecent assault, an act of indecency and
intimidation.

The man was refused police bail and the man is expected to appear in Bankstown Local Court today.

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KEYWORD: INVASION

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