COSA
Newsletter June 1998
Woman charged with making false rape claim
In Feb this year a
45 year old woman was tied up and sexually assaulted in her Orakei
home. Her attacker is described as a Maori or pacific
On 11 May the 25 year old woman reported to the police that she came home to
find a note made of cut-out newspaper letters in her kitchen from the offender,
threatening to come back and ‘do her properly’. It was reported in the paper on
13 May that the police were keeping guard outside her home all night to protect
her.
The following day, the paper reported that the woman had now been charged with
making a false complaint. She was not named. The original sex attack on the 45
year old woman is still unsolved.
(NZ Herald, 13 May 1998, Sex attack suspect leaves calling card at victim’s door;
14 May 1998, Residents shocked at false claim charges)
The Dominion
May 13, 1998
Attacker may have left note
NZPA
A serial sex
attacker may have returned to the home of his victim to leave a note
threatening to come back and rape her "properly".
Police were keeping an overnight guard outside a bungalow in the
The note was found in her kitchen during daylight yesterday -- despite a
massive police presence as investigations continue into her last attack.
The head of Operation Orakei, Detective Sergeant
Julian Rinckes, would not comment on the note, but
sources say the author threatened to come back and "do her properly".
Police investigations into two linked sex attacks have uncovered 26 reports of
break-ins, burglaries, and prowlings within a
kilometre radius which could be the work of the same man.
Residents are reluctant to open their doors at night and say they are being
kept prisoners in their own homes.
One said the woman who found the note was terrified by the latest development
and intended to move out of the neighbourhood.
Police coverage in the street began on February 4, when a 45-year-old resident
was tied up and sexually assaulted in her house during the day.
On April 22 the woman who was left the note was grabbed as she put her dogs
outside her back door. A man wearing a balaclava slashed her clothes off with a
knife and tried to rape her. She suffered cuts to her face and hands before she
kicked him in the groin and ran for help.
The man was described as a Maori or Pacific Islander. In both sex attacks he
wore a hood, but was described as having red "protruding" eyes.
The Dominion
May 14, 1998
Woman charged over false complaints
A serial sex attack
inquiry is now focusing on one attack in an Auckland suburb after police
arrested a woman yesterday for making false complaints.
Glen Innes detectives set up Operation Orakei to investigate sexual attacks on two women in their
However the inquiry team arrested an Orakei woman,
25, yesterday and charged her with making false complaints in relation to
allegations of sexual violation on April 22. She was also charged with burglary
and threatening to cause grievous bodily harm on May 11.
Senior Sergeant Jim Gallagher said the May 11 charge related to the alleged
discovery of a note at a
Police are now concentrating on the February 4 attack in which a woman, 45, was
grabbed by an intruder after returning home about 11.30am. Mr Gallagher said
the woman was sexually violated by a masked man wielding a knife. The intruder,
who tied the woman up during the attack, was described as a Maori or
Polynesian, about 1.7 metres (5ft 7in) tall, aged in his 20s, of athletic
build, and wearing a black top and blue and yellow shorts.
Police have asked for information about property stolen during the attack.
Items that were listed included a portable compact disc player, a pair of
roller skates and some Adidas running shoes.
Previous police investigations into the two alleged attacks uncovered 26
reports of break-ins, burglaries, and prowlings
within a one-kilometre radius. Police warned women living on their own to secure
their homes and report any suspicious behaviour.