A man who police say offered a ride to a woman who got into his car thinking it was her ride-share has been charged with rape.
Sexual crimes squad detectives charged the 50-year-old Mill Park man with two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault after he allegedly picked up a 20-year-old woman near the intersection of Peel and Oxford streets in Fitzroy last Friday.
Police say the man offered the woman a lift home before driving to a location on nearby Rowe Street, where he allegedly sexually assaulted her.
The victim managed to alert a friend via text message. Police attended shortly after.
The man will appear before Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday afternoon.
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