Man charged with rape of child
PA Auckland Otahuhu detectives arrested a 31-year-old Tongan-Indian cleaner from Onehunga yesterday, and charged him with the abduction and rape of Michelle Driscoll. He will appear in the Magistrate’s Court at Otahuhu today. Detectives are continuing their inquiries, and would like to hear from anyone who attended an all-night Tongan party in Otahuhu at the week-end. Michelle, aged four, was abducted from her Mangere home early on Sunday morning and raped. She
was found 12 hours later, wrapped in a curtain in a vacant section near the Mangere public cemetery. The police found Michelle’s pyjama trousers 150 yards from the police inquiry headquarters, at the Viscount Road clubrooms of the Manukau Rovers Rugby Football Club. The trousers were found under some trees in Williams Park, near Killington Crescent, by a policeman. Detective Inspector R- 1. Chadwick said that about 50 policemen and between 80-100 members of the public searched for Michelle on Sunday.
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