Woman tied, gagged and assaulted

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34149, 10 May 1976, Page 16

Woman tied, gagged and assaulted

'X.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. May 9. A Sandringham woman has told the police that she lay, bound and gagged with her own clothes, on her bed for nearly eight hours after a tall European with long red hair attacked her as she entered her front door yesterday afternoon. The 53ryear-old woman, who lives in Kiwitea Street, •Sandringham, was returning from shopping at the Sandringham shopning centre when the attack was made.

,; She told the police she had been opening her front door Jat about 4.30 p.m. when she J was violently pushed from behind. A man threw her down on j to a sofa near the door where he indecently assaulted her. Then as the woman began Ito fight and cry out. he dragged her to her bedroom and pinned her on the bed. There, using some of the woman’s clothes that were in the bedroom, he gagged her land tied another garment tightly over her eyes. Then he indecently assaulted her again, the woman . told the police. The man then ran off — J, but it was not until nearly midnight that the woman ’managed to work her gag loose and screamed loud en- • ough for a neighbour to hear jher. The neighbour managed to • find a way into the house ■and released the woman.