Dawn rape reported in Limassol

LIMASSOL police were yesterday looking into a complaint made by a Scottish permanent resident that she had been raped by a taxi driver.

The 28-year-old woman claimed she had flagged down the taxi at 4am on George the First Street in Yermasoyia.

She asked the man to take her home but instead he drove her to an unknown place in town where he allegedly raped her.

He subsequently abandoned her somewhere on Hadjipavlou Street where she was found by a passerby, who took her to the police, a statement said.

State pathologist Eleni Antoniou, who examined the woman, said she found evidence of sexual molestation.

The alleged perpetrator was described as being between 45 and 50-years-old, fat and of average height.

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