Overview
- Police arrested a 65-year-old Bendigo man in connection with an alleged 1985 abduction and rape in Belgrave Heights.
- Sexual Crimes Squad detectives plan to interview the man and say the investigation remains open with no charges filed.
- Police say the victim, then in her 30s, returned to her unlocked car at a Colby Drive milk bar where a man with a knife allegedly forced her to drive to a secluded bush area in Belgrave South and raped her.
- Investigators say the attacker tried to hide his identity, left the woman tied and partially clothed in the rain, and drove her car back to dump it on Vale Road near the milk bar.
- Detectives urged anyone who was at the milk bar or who suffered a similar attack to contact Crime Stoppers, noting a reported earlier assault in the area has never been matched to a known case.