While on a recent patrol, officers from the Primrose Police Station received a complaint about a fight in Zinnia Avenue, in Primrose.<\/p>\n
The officers proceeded to the address given where they met a woman who reported that a woman living in a small backroom had been raped and stabbed with a beer bottle in the upper body.<\/p>
\u201cShe took the police to the room where they found a badly injured woman lying naked on the floor bleeding,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n
Gathering all the information they could they began their investigation.<\/p>
A 24-year-old man was soon arrested and charged with rape and assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n
He was held at the Primrose Police Station and later appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court, where his case was postponed for a bail application.<\/p>\n
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