Mandurah Detectives have charged a 31-year-old man with a string of offences – including deprivation of liberty and threats to kill – after a woman was violently attacked on Monday.
Police will allege a woman in her 20s was assaulted by the man, who was known to her, about 8.30pm Monday night at a home in Mandurah.
The man then fled to the Mandurah Train Station, where he approached a woman in her 30s as she was exiting her car about 8.40pm.
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Police will allege he used a hammer to smash a window to open the car door.
The woman was able to get out of the vehicle before the man drove off. She sustained minor injuries from glass fragments from her car window.
On Tuesday, the vehicle was located abandoned in Hampton Road, Pinjarra.
The Mandurah man has been charged with:
- Two counts of Steal Motor Vehicle;
- Aggravated Armed Robbery;
- Aggravated Home Burglary and Commit;
- Aggravated Unlawful Assault Occasioning Bodily Harm;
- Deprivation of Liberty;
- Threaten to Kill;
- Possession of a Firearm in the Circumstances of Aggravation;
- Stealing; and
- No Authority to Drive.
He was due to appear before the Mandurah Magistrates Court on Wednseday.
