A 23-year-old university student has been arrested for allegedly robbing and raping two other university students.
According to the Director of Criminal Investigations, the suspect from the same campus as the victims committed the offences on the night of April 14, 2024.
"Detectives who relentlessly pursued the case eventually caught up with the first suspect on May 15," DCI said.
DCI said the suspect was in the company of one other suspect, who is yet to be identified
"In the April incident reported to the police by a member of community policing within the area, the two 1st year students aged 19 and 20 were attacked while sleeping in their shared room in the dead of the night, by two assailants who were armed with a machete and a dagger," the detectives said.
"Kicking the door open and threatening the fear-stricken girls with stabs should they make a murmur, they forced themselves on the victims before disappearing with their smartphones."
After the attack, the victims screamed for help and neighbours who were first responders rushed them to the hospital for medical attention.
The detectives said the suspect was on Thursday paraded for identification, and DNA sampling was conducted. He was later arraigned.
They added that new leads to his accomplice(s) have since been obtained and the investigators are on their trail.
