Sanctuary Hotel’s Jamie Pang charged with rape

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Sanctuary Hotel’s Jamie Pang charged with rape

(Admits breaching visa conditions)

PORT MORESBY: Sanctuary Hotel operations manager Jamie Pang was charged in the Waigani committal court yesterday with raping a 20-year-old woman in Port Moresby last year.

In another district court, also yesterday, Pang pleaded guilty to breaching visa conditions by having firearms.

Pang’s brush with the law and predicament were reported by The National:

Pang admits breach

February 22, 2022The NationalMain Stories

SANCTUARY Hotel operations manager Jamie Pang was charged in the Waigani committal court yesterday with raping a 20-year-old woman in Port Moresby last year.
In another district court, also yesterday, Pang pleaded guilty to breaching visa conditions by having firearms.
Magistrate Paul Nii read the rape charge to Pang, an Australian from Sydney, and ordered him to be transferred from the Bomana Immigration Detention Centre to Bomana Prison for remand.
“We are looking at the seriousness of the charge and regardless of his other charges in the summary court, Pang must be remanded in prison until a proper bail application is filed in court.
“Pang is charged with a criminal offence (rape) and must be remanded in a proper remand centre in prison,” he added.
Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Chris Iga had submitted that Pang be transferred to prison instead of the detention centre because of the criminal offence.
Pang’s lawyer Greg Sheppard did not object to Iga’s submission and added that it was the right thing to have Pang transferred according to the charge.
Magistrate Nii then issued a warrant for Pang to be remanded in prison and fixed March 24 for the next hearing.
Magistrate Nii told Sheppard that Pang’s bail application could be filed anytime between now and March 24.
Police alleged that on Oct 20, the young woman and her friend were picked up by Pang’s driver in Vadavada and driven to the Sanctuary Hotel.
On their way, the friend told the woman that she was invited by her boyfriend for drinks in the hotel and had booked a room for them.
It was alleged that the woman and her friend met Pang on their way up the stairs to the hotel room and he welcomed them.
The woman and her friend then went to the man’s room and was later brought to Pang’s room. Pang then told the others to leave the woman in his room.
Pang then allegedly forced the woman to smoke drugs until she became high and raped her.
The woman was upset and asked Pang to arrange for his driver to drop her off.
Police further alleged that Pang’s driver took the woman up to the road and stopped a taxi, gave K200 to the cabby and told him to kill the woman.
Instead, the taxi driver took her to the Hohola police station. The woman then wanted to lodge a police report but was picked up by a Fox Unit member.
It was also alleged that a policeman made a video of himself threatening her not to lodge a police report against Pang.
The matter was not reported until the video went viral on social media and the woman was called in for an interview.
Pang was arrested and charged.
In another district court, magistrate Danny Wakikura told Pang that he would wait to hear submissions for his penalty following his guilty plea.
Wakikura said a proper bail application must be field after filing his bail application in the committal court on his criminal charge.
“If the committal court grants you bail, then you should consider filing a bail application before this court,” he added.
Wakikura then adjourned the matter to March 7 for Pang’s submission on the penalty of breaching visa conditions and issued a warrant of remand for Pang to be detained in prison.
According to the police brief facts, between January and December last year, Pang living in Papua New Guinea on a working resident visa as the operations manager of the hotel engaged in storing illegal items, namely firearms and ammunition.
Pang was arrested fined K130,000 by the Boroko district court after he pleaded guilty to 11 charges under the Firearms Act.

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