27-year-old accused of rape

Thursday 31st March 2011, 2:59PM BST.

A 27-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with raping and sodomising a woman in the corridor of a hotel.

Matthew Timothy Noel, of Sydney Court, St Peter, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was granted bail pending his next appearance.

Relief Magistrate Peter Harris declined jurisdiction for the case because the charges were too serious, meaning that Mr Noel will appear before the Royal Court in about six weeks.


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