{"id":60950,"date":"2014-05-30T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/60950\/man-hunt-a-success\/"},"modified":"2014-05-30T08:59:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T06:59:20","slug":"man-hunt-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/30\/man-hunt-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hunt a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A manhunt was launched after a young victim reported being raped.<\/p>\n<p>The young woman came into the Primrose Police Station to open a case of rape against a 20-year-old man from the Marathon informal settlement.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The woman explained to officers that she had been walking through the settlement when the accused grabbed her and forced her into a near-by shack, where he threatened and raped her.<\/p>\n<p>The man later locked his victim in his shack while he went out; he returned a while later and raped her again.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The victim was able to escape with the help of the accused&#8217;s friend.<\/p>\n<p>The rescuer was alerted to the situation when the accused bragged of the rape to a group of friends.<\/p>\n<p>Using the victim&#8217;s description, police launched a manhunt for the man and he was found and arrested on Friday, May 16.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court where his case was postponed for trial.<\/p>\n<p>The accused will remain in police custody until his next court appearance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='52f567614a900ad127dc800b26318803'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for young woman&#8217;s rape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":60951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,979,2730,1384,999,1000,1480,997,1689],"class_list":["post-60950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-marathon-informal-settlement","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-rape"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","marathon informal settlement","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","rape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}