Jamie Pang to challenge police evidence on rape case
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Jamie Pang to challenge
police evidence on rape case
PORT MORESBY: Sanctuary Hotel operations manager Jamie
Pang, who is charged with raping a 20-year-old woman, has been served the
police investigation file.
The file was served
through defence counsel Greg Sheppard who then withdrew a notice of motion
filed in a committal court in Waigani to have the case struck out for want of
police evidence.
Sheppard then asked the
court for two weeks to prepare the submission against the evidence.
The court proceedings were reported by The National:
Pang to challenge police evidence on rape case
May 13, 2022The
NationalNational
By BEVERLY PETER
SANCTUARY Hotel
operations manager Jamie Pang, who is charged with raping a 20-year-old woman,
has been served the police investigations file.
The file was served through defence counsel Greg Sheppard who then withdrew a
notice of motion filed in a committal court in Waigani to have the case struck
out for want of police evidence.
Sheppard then asked the court for two weeks to prepare the submission against
the evidence. Magistrate Paul Puri Nii set May 19 to hear arguments from the
police and Sheppard on the sufficiency of police evidence against Pang.
Pang, 43, from Sydney, was arrested on Feb 21 for allegedly raping the woman in
Port Moresby on Oct 20.
Pang was arrested while in custody in the Bomana Detention Centre for breaching
his visa conditions after he pleaded guilty to 11 charges under the Firearms
Act and was fined a total of K130,000 by the Boroko district court.
He was also fined K4,000 for breaching his visa conditions.
Outside court yesterday, some of Pang’s employees and a team of mixed martial
arts team gathered in a show of support.
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