Two friends abducted, raped, sodomised

TWO 20-year-old women, one from South Oropouche and the other from Siparia, remain traumatised at their respective homes after they were abducted, gang-raped and sodomised by four men in a white Nissan Tiida early this morning.

Police said one of the rapists had a gold tooth and the victims gave clear descriptions of all the suspects.

The women spent several hours on Friday night partying at Club La Vega in San Fernando and at around 3.15 am, they tried to get transportation to Fyzabad. While waiting, the four men pulled up and the one with the gold tooth took out a gun and ordered them into the car. They were taken to some bushes in San Fernando where the men took turns sexually assaulting them. They were then dropped off in Penal.

The victims, who were barely able to speak, sought help from a passerby who took them to the Penal police station where there gave a statement. Police were told that three of them wore three-quarter pants while the fourth wore dark clothing. Southern Division police searched for the suspects but they were not found.

A senior police officer has advised women to desist from travelling alone or entering unknown private vehicles.

In an unrelated incident, a 23-year-old St Ann's woman went to the Four Roads police station and reported that she entered a silver Wingroad at around 5.15 am and asked the driver to take her to Port of Spain.

She said the man took out a gun and took her to Blue Basin where he sexually assaulted her before dropping her off in Petit Valley.