RCIPS officers chase down rape suspect

(CNS): Police officers chased and arrested a suspect who fled from the scene of a reported rape in the early hours of Saturday morning. Shortly after 4:00am on Saturday 20 October, police received a report that a man had raped a woman within a house in the Prospect area. A man fled from the scene in a car when the officers arrived but they followed the vehicle, signaling the driver to stop. The driver failed to stop and sped into the North Sound Estates, where the car drove off the road into bushes. The officers immediately arrested the suspect on suspicion of rape and he remains in police custody while enquiries continue.. Police enquiries have revealed that the suspect is known to the victim.