Teenager charged with rape

(CNS): Police have charged a nineteen-year-old man with rape following an incident in Prospect in the early hours of Saturday morning. The teenager appeared in court Wednesday and was remanded in custody to HMP Northward ahead of his next appearance in Grand Court. He was arrested by police after fleeing the scene of the reported rape of a woman, who was known to the man, in a car at around 4:00am on 20 October. Police officers chased the vehicle signalling for the teen to stop. As the car sped into the North Sound Estates, it drove off the road into bushes and the officers immediately arrested the man. Meanwhile, police said that a victim who was stabbed n George Town on Friday remains in hospital but is now in a stable condition.

The 49-year-old man was stabbed in the early hours of Friday morning in Kingbird Drive, George Town and a 25-year-old man who was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder remains in police custody.