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A 30-year-old driver is in the grips of the Prampram Police for allegedly raping a former sales girl of Agapet Supermarket at Dawhenya after he had pleaded with the former sales girl to wash his clothes. Florence Elikplim Agbenyezi, 22, who is the complainant, lives in the same area, New Dawhenya, with the suspect Raphael Agbemanya and both knew each other when Florence used to work as a sales girl at the Agapet Supermarket and Raphael was a customer. Speaking with The Finder at his office at the Ningo-Prampram District Police Headquarters, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Paul Bampo said on November 1, this year the complainant met the suspect at about 5.30pm when she was returning home from town. Raphael then requested the contact number of Florence, and after giving him her contact, she gave her mobile phone to the suspect to charge it for her. Next day at about 7am, Raphael went to Florence�s house, where he sent her on an errand with GH₵2.40 to buy him eggs and requested her to meet him in his residence for her mobile phone when she returned with the eggs. At about 12pm when she returned to his residence with the eggs, the suspect pleaded with the complainant to get into his bedroom to wash his clothes. When she obliged, the Ningo-Prampram District Police boss said, the suspect fondled the complainant's breasts and requested to have sex with her, but when she refused, the suspect pushed the complainant onto his bed, struggled with her and in the process tore part of her panty. Raphael then covered Florence's mouth with his hand, removed her panty and forcibly had sex with her. As if that was not enough, the suspect followed the complainant in his bathroom, where she went to throw saliva, and forcibly topped up with another round of sex. Not too long after the complainant got home at about 3pm same day to sleep, she heard a knock on her door, and when she went to check who could be knocking, she found out it was the suspect who had followed her for another sex. The suspect fled when the complainant shouted for help. At 11pm that night, Florence Agbenyezi lodged a complaint with the Prampram Police, who then issued a medical report form to her for medical treatment, and when she returned with the form duly endorsed by a medical officer at the Tema General Hospital (TGH), the suspect was later arrested. A caution statement was obtained from Raphael and he is due to appear before court for a charge of rape, DCOP Bampo said.