What began as an online romance through the Tinder dating app allegedly turned into a terrifying ordeal for a 43-year-old woman after a man she met on the platform reportedly abducted her at gunpoint, raped her at a Portmore motel and robbed her before abandoning her in St Andrew.

The accused is 33-year-old Demoy Rayon Pennington, a bar operator of Tremelsworth district, St Mary.

Pennington was charged on Tuesday, June 30, with forcible abduction, rape and robbery with aggravation following an investigation by detectives in St Catherine.