A Police Officer to stand trial for rape

A POLICE officer will face trial at the Waigani National Court on a charge of rape involving a married woman at the Boroko Police station premises last year. 

Waigani Committal Court magistrate Cosmas Bidar ruled that there was overwhelming evidence to commit Jericke Mokmane to the National Court for trial. 

Mokmane, 29, from Kombokande village, Kerowagi district, Chimbu, was ordered by Bidar to appear before the National Court on Dec 9 for listing. 

The court heard that the woman and her husband had taken refuge at the police station on the night of Nov 16 last year after they were stranded in the city. 

They had missed a PMV truck which was supposed to take them to their home at Boera village outside Port Moresby. 

Mokmane was the police officer on duty.

Bidar told the court that the woman and her husband thought that the police station was the safest place to seek shelter in.

“They simply did no wrong and were simply there to seek refuge and sit out the night,” Bidar said. 

The court heard that the husband was then taken into custody on some allegations.

The court was told that the woman was then taken by Mokmane to the back of the police station and ordered her to perform indecent acts on him before she was raped. 

PNG Today / The National