Detectives from the Gold Coast Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) yesterday charged a 25-year-old man with the alleged sexual assault of a woman at Southport on April 2.
Around 2am a 21-year-old woman used a ride share service from Broadbeach to a residence at Southport.
The woman left the vehicle and entered the residence on her own.
It will be alleged minutes later the ride share driver entered the house through an unlocked door without the woman’s knowledge. He then sexually assaulted the woman in a bedroom.
The woman was able to fight the man off which woke other occupants of the residence at which time the man fled.
A 25-year-old man from Miami with has been charged with one count of burglary and four counts of sexual assault.
He is due to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court on April 17, 2019.
Detective Inspector Brendan Smith of the Gold Coast CIB said this type of predatory behaviour