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Speaker 1: A man's been arrested and charged over an indecent assault

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Speaker 1: on a woman while she was asleep in her home

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Speaker 1: in Perrap last week. It is alleged that the man

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Speaker 1: broke into her apartment, with the woman waking up to

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Speaker 1: a naked man on top of her on Tuesday night.

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Speaker 1: Police arrested a twenty nine year old man at a

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Speaker 1: home in lud Miller on Friday who's now facing multiple charges.

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Speaker 1: And joining us in the studio to tell us more

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Speaker 1: is Detective Senior Sergeant Toby Wilson. Good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Toby, Good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Listen, thank you so much for your time this morning,

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Speaker 1: tell us about the incident. In the incident, first off,

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Speaker 1: and how did the man get into this woman's home?

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Speaker 2: Sure so. At about eleven forty pm on the tenth

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Speaker 2: of June, Non Territory Police received a call from a

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Speaker 2: female in relation to a law ful entry and indecent assault.

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Speaker 2: So what's occurred on the allegation is that a male

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Speaker 2: offender has entered by climbing over a first floor railing.

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Speaker 2: He's then approached a sliding door which was closed but

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Speaker 2: was unlocked, and upon entering his entered the bedroom of

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Speaker 2: the female victim. He's removed his clothing and she's a

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Speaker 2: woke to him being naked on top of her. She

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Speaker 2: has wrestled the man off the bed and has very

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Speaker 2: bravely fended him off. He has then walked away and

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Speaker 2: put on a pair of dark shorts, and he's taken

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Speaker 2: a bag containing some personal property, including a camera, and

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Speaker 2: then he's left the unit.

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Speaker 1: It's just horrifying stuff. I mean, it's the type of

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Speaker 1: thing that nightmares are made of. This poor woman god

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Speaker 1: an experience. Was she at home alone when that unfollowed?

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Speaker 2: She was, Yeah, she was at home alone on that evening,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it terrifying for her.

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Speaker 1: In this sentence, how is she doing?

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Speaker 2: She's doing better, Like I said, she's been very brave

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Speaker 2: through the sincient This is horrifying for anyone to experience.

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Speaker 2: Obviously assured that the offender's being captured.

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Speaker 1: Detective Singer, Sergeant, talk me through how you caught this bloke.

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Speaker 2: Sure. So, the detectives from the Sex Schrimes Unit, working

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Speaker 2: in cooperation with Strike Force, Trident, CCTV operators, and our

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Speaker 2: forensics and other police units work cooperatively. We used a

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Speaker 2: range of different sources of evidence. Forensics CCTV and witness

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Speaker 2: victim statement of the information. So it was really a

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Speaker 2: collaborative effort leading to the arrest of this male.

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Speaker 1: Can you talk me through that arrest? Where did you

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Speaker 1: find him?

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Speaker 2: Yes? So he was arrested at a house at lud Miller.

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Speaker 2: Police had made inquiries late last week at that same

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Speaker 2: address after adding some stolen property that was linked to

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Speaker 2: the offending, and following further investigations were able to confirm

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Speaker 2: the identification of an offender, leading to his arrest.

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Speaker 1: What's he been charged with?

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Speaker 2: Sure, so he was arrested. He was charged with offenses

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Speaker 2: of burglary, gross indecency and theft and indecent act.

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Speaker 1: And do we know if he was on bail or

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Speaker 1: anything at this at that point in time of offending.

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Speaker 2: I can't confirm from that fear right now.

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Speaker 1: Okay, in terms of he's fronting court today, is that right? Well? Look,

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Speaker 1: you know, well done to the police on being able

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Speaker 1: to apprehend him quickly, because I know women around the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory were worried, quite concerned, particularly you know, after

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Speaker 1: hearing about how he's gotten into that home and what

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Speaker 1: he's done to that woman. It was horrifying Unfortunately, there

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Speaker 1: was also a second indecent assault the day after this

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Speaker 1: one occurred. We are investigations out with that. Do we

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Speaker 1: believe it's the same offender.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so investigations are still ongoing with that matter in Larakia.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, that was on the eleventh of June. So

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Speaker 2: we do not believe it's the same offender. There were

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Speaker 2: some similarities between the the what we would call the

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Speaker 2: motus operanded, the way the offense was conducted, and the

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Speaker 2: other offense, and there were some similarities between the descriptions,

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Speaker 2: but we from an early stage had some questions as

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Speaker 2: to whether it was the same offender, and there some

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Speaker 2: suggestions about the descriptions and other information indicady it might be.

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Speaker 2: We are now able to confidently say that it is

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Speaker 2: not the same offender.

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Speaker 1: So he's still on the loose at this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. We do have persons of interest that

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Speaker 2: we're working towards confirming.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so at this point in time, you know,

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Speaker 1: to all the women listening this morning, you know, I

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Speaker 1: do like it's all we're always encouraged to remain vigilant,

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Speaker 1: but are you concerned that this person that in this

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Speaker 1: second incident could target other women.

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Speaker 2: Look that that is always a concern. So again I'm

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Speaker 2: quite cautious in my wording here about our emphasis is

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Speaker 2: on the actions of the offender. Here at all times

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Speaker 2: territories need to be mindful of their security practices, so

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Speaker 2: just the simple things of making their locks, of functioning,

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Speaker 2: checking their locks before they go to bed, having other

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Speaker 2: options like your CCTV and knowing your neighbors and things

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Speaker 2: like that. So just to continue those practices.

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Speaker 1: All right, but really to you know, to try to

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Speaker 1: set the community's mind at ease. Police are absolutely, I

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Speaker 1: would imagine investigating with vigor to try.

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Speaker 2: And catch these like So we've had numerous extra resources

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Speaker 2: on all through the weekend from various sections from Thursday,

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Speaker 2: they were continuing last night till late at night, saturating

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Speaker 2: the area and conducting further efforts, proactive efforts to trying

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Speaker 2: to identify persons of interest as well as the actual

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Speaker 2: investigation side, which again we're working diligently with our forensics

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Speaker 2: section and our other areas and the public and the community.

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Speaker 1: So was that like additional patrols and that kind of

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Speaker 1: thing over the weekend. Are you able to give us

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Speaker 1: a description of this man? Just to those out there

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Speaker 1: listening this morning.

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Speaker 2: Sure, So one point I'd like to clarify about that.

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Speaker 2: So I did provide it descriptions through media at Let's

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Speaker 2: last week, and there was mentioned of a balaklava, that

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Speaker 2: he was wearing a ballet clava. Now it may have

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Speaker 2: been bal wearing a balaclava, but we'd like to consider

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Speaker 2: that he may be have been wearing a dark hat,

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Speaker 2: cap or similar. So sometimes in the stress of a

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Speaker 2: moment and being dark and at night and all these factors,

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Speaker 2: sometimes accounts can vary somewhat. And again I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: that eliminating that the persons wearing this, but has also

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Speaker 2: a likelihood he may have been wearing something dark over

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Speaker 2: his head or a or a cap. Apart from that,

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Speaker 2: a tall male. Initial description was about one hundred and

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Speaker 2: ninety centimeters, so that's tall, very tall, slim build, and

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Speaker 2: wearing dark clothing, dark top, long sleeve top and.

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Speaker 1: Trousers and quite clean cush.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so that was that was also yea.

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Speaker 1: All right, So if anybody's got any information, like if

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Speaker 1: they might have seen somebody suspicious in the area or

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Speaker 1: meat or matching that description, get in contact with the police.

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Speaker 1: One three, one, triple four.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, all crime stoppers on one day, one

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Speaker 2: hundred triples three, triple zero.

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Speaker 1: Well, Detective Senior Sergeant Toby Wilson really appreciate your time

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Speaker 1: this morning. Thank you so much for joining us in

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Speaker 1: the studio and I hope you're able to get your

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Speaker 1: hands on him sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Thank you,