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A 38-year-old labour­er from Siparia has been charged with griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault and bug­gery af­ter al­leged­ly lur­ing a woman in­to his ve­hi­cle un­der the pre­tence of op­er­at­ing a taxi and as­sault­ing her at his home.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent oc­curred around 6.15 am on June 28, when the woman was stand­ing in front of a fast-food out­let on High Street, Siparia, wait­ing for trans­porta­tion to San Fer­nan­do.

She was ap­proached by a man who iden­ti­fied him­self as a pri­vate-hire taxi dri­ver and of­fered her a ride.