A man who broke into a Dunedin student flat and violated a young woman\u00a0can now be named.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Keith Andrew Wicks-Cairns, 36, appeared in the High Court at Dunedin this morning after earlier admitting the\u00a0burglary of the Cosy Dell Rd property and two counts of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, counsel Brendan Stephenson confirmed today his client maintained not-guilty pleas on charges of rape and strangulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Justice Jonathan Eaton set a jury-trial date in March next year and remanded Wicks-Cairns in custody, where he has remained since charges were laid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All allegations stem from events on February 4 and relate to the same complainant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is understood the young woman told police she woke in the early hours to a masked man in her bedroom with his hand over her mouth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident took place over a protracted period and the defendant allegedly made the woman wash her hands before he left.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is also understood the defendant took bed sheets with him when he made his escape.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wicks-Cairns will next appear before the court in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who broke into a Dunedin student flat and violated a young woman\u00a0can now be named.\u00a0 Keith…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-37540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}