Hospital attack: man still at large
Christchurch detectives' i are still looking for the man I who. attacked a young female occupational thera-. pist in a shower cubicle ini the clinical block at the Christchurch Hospital on Thursday evening. ; . The attacker pushed the: woman, aged 23, to the floor I of the cubicle, and started to choke her when she began, to scream. X The man tried to run off,! but the woman gave chase; and struggled with him again. The man finally escaped
-'through a rear entrance to i the hospital near the junc- ; tion of Rolleston Avenue • and Cambridge Terrace. il He is; described as a Euroi pean, aged between 25 and i'3O, about ,178 cm (sft 9in) ■ tall, of thin build, with a 'fresh ' complexion, brown : eyes, and possibly a small > moustache. He has short, i. dark brown wavy hair, • The man was wearing a ,! cream machine-knitted polo■ineck jersey' with an Aran. ■ nattern on the front, grey or fawn trousers, and dress I shoes.
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Press, 19 April 1980, Page 6
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