A 24-year-old Fijian farmer, Ilaisa Tanoa Degei, has been charged with sexual assault and rape after allegedly attacking a 21-year-old Australian flight attendant in Nadi, Fiji. Degei was denied bail and his case has been moved to Fiji’s High Court.
A man accused of raping an Australian flight attendant in the early hours of New Year’s Day has been refused bail ahead of a hearing in Fiji ’s High Court. Ilaisa Tanoa Degei, 24, a farmer from Navosa, on Fiji ’s largest island Viti Levu, appeared before magistrate Mareta Tikoisuva charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of rape.
Nadi magistrates court heard allegations that in the early hours of the new year Degei sexually assaulted and digitally raped the 21-year-old Virgin crew member, from Bail was refused and the case - given the severity of the charges - was immediately upgraded to the High Court in Lautoka. The case will return to court on 20 January. The alleged sexual assault, as well as a separate alleged incident of robbery, occurred after flight crew members had rung in the new year at a nightclub in Nadi, one of Fiji’s best-known tourist spots. The crew were in Fiji on a layover between flights. The woman had reportedly been separated from her colleagues and was attempting to return to her hotel after the nightclub’s lockout when the alleged incident occurred.The Virgin crew members had been at the Bar One nightclub in Nadi’s Martintar district, but the two incidents occurred after they had left the club. “While we acknowledge the seriousness of the situation, we feel it is important to clarify that this incident did not take place within Bar One, nor in the immediate vicinity of our establishment,” the nightclub’s management said in a social media pos
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