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<\/p>\nA Brisbane rideshare driver has been charged with rape, stalking and coercive control over incidents involving three women across the city over the span of five years.<\/p>\n
Queensland Police will allege the driver connected with a 27-year-old passenger on social media and developed a relationship after driving her home in a white Mercedes Benz A45 at night in June 2025.<\/p>\n
“During the relationship, it will be alleged the man repeatedly accessed the woman’s phone and threatened to assault her,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“The woman unsuccessfully attempted to end the relationship on numerous occasions.”<\/p>\n
Police said it would be alleged the man attended the woman’s house unannounced on the night of July 20 and sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n
“The woman ended the relationship and told the man not to contact her again,” police said.<\/p>\n
Police allege the man again turned up at the woman’s house unannounced on August 17 and threatened her, however left due to other people being there.<\/p>\n
In a separate incident on November 1, 2024 the man allegedly exchanged social media account details with a 21-year-old woman who used a white Mercedes Benz A45 rideshare to return home from Fortitude Valley.<\/p>\n
“Over the next seven days it will be alleged the man sent the woman multiple messages and threatened to attend her workplace,” police said.<\/p>\n
“The woman never met the man after the original ride share and blocked him on social media and phone before attending a police station to report the matter.”<\/p>\n
Allegations span back to 2020<\/p>\n
Police said it would be further alleged four years earlier, in November 2020, the man assaulted a 20-year-old woman and went through her phone two months into their relationship.<\/p>\n
“The man allegedly phoned the woman multiple times per day and turned up at her house if she did not answer the phone calls,” police said.<\/p>\n
Police said the woman finished the relationship in early 2021 and attended a police station in May that year in relation to the matter.<\/p>\n
Police executed a search warrant at a Ferny Hills address on November 17, 2025 and seized mobile phones and a laptop allegedly belonging to the man.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old Ferny Hills man has been charged with one count each of rape, coercive control and threatening violence and three counts of stalking.<\/p>\n
He is due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 17.<\/p>\n
Police said extensive investigations indicated the same man is allegedly involved in all incidents.<\/p>\n
Senior Sergeant Robert Lowry said anyone who had had a similar interaction should contact police. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“We do believe from the information we have got that there are probably other women out there that have experienced this behaviour by this driver,” he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Robert Lowry says the three alleged victims that have been identified are all women in their 20s. (ABC News: Tara Cassidy)<\/p>\n
He said the man had been described as being 5’6″ and of a muscular build, with a tanned complexion, facial hair and tattoos on both arms and one leg.<\/p>\n
Senior Sergeant Lowry said\u00a0said the man no longer drove for the rideshare service, but that police allege the 29-year-old may still be in the industry and operating on the Gold Coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But I am not aware of any other victims coming from that particular location,” Senior Sergeant Lowry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brisbane rideshare driver has been charged with rape, stalking and coercive control over incidents involving three women…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,289373,44,94,701,4106,163650,48575],"class_list":["post-592698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coervive-control","tag-news","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-queensland-police","tag-sexual-offences","tag-stalking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}