A man accused of robbing the Clubview Shell filling station and raping a woman a week later will be back in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
Wierdabrug police spokesperson Captain Agnes Huma said the 27-year-old man was denied bail at his previous appearance on Monday on rape and robbery charges.
Rekord recently reported that a 25-year-old woman told police the man raped her at Mnandi near Olievenhoutbosch on 30 January.
The woman claimed he asked her for a place to sleep and she agreed.
“The woman told police the man entered her bedroom around 03:30 and raped her,” Huma said.
“She laid charges at the police station the following day and community members assisted the police in arresting the man the same day.”
This follows a week after the man apparently robbed the filling station on the old Johannesburg Road.
Video footage of the balaclava-wearing robber went viral.
The robber is seen on closed circuit television cameras entering the convenience store with a shotgun around 20:40 and leaving it about 30 seconds later.
Johan Fourie, assistant manager at the filling station, said the man ordered the cashier to stop what he was doing and to move aside. He casually opened the till and took about R2 000.
He fled the scene in a blue vehicle, believed to have been a Ford Fiesta.
The police investigation discovered a link between the robbery and the rape, Huma said.
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