Man charged with three counts of rape
A 30-year-old Northampton man has been charged with three counts of rape on a Chinese woman in the town during the early hours of Saturday. morning.
The man is due to appear before Northampton magistrates this morning.
He was arrested by police on Wednesday and was quizzed yesterday at Campbell Square police station in Northampton.
He was arrested as part of a high profile investigation following the alleged rape in the early hours of last Saturday.
As part of the hunt for the person responsbile for raping the 22-year-old woman, police issued an artist's impression of the suspect as well as CCTV footage of a man they wanted to speak to in connection with the alleged rape.
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