Police release CCTV footage of car involved in Auckland abduction
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Auckland police have released CCTV footage which shows a speeding car involved in the attempted abduction and indecent assault of a young woman.
One piece of the footage, released on Tuesday, shows a dark car speeding down the street with the woman believed to be inside. The other shows the car driving slowly towards the end of the dead-end street.
The Auckland woman, in her mid 20s, was forced into the front passenger seat of the car while walking along Haslett St in the central suburb of Eden Terrace on Monday afternoon.
'She saw a couple of parked cars with a man standing next to one of them. As she walked past the man he grabbed her from behind and managed to drag her into the front passenger seat of his car,' Detective Senior Sergeant Glenn Baldwin said on Monday.
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'A struggle took place however the woman was able to break free and jumped out of the moving vehicle.'
The woman, who leapt from the car as it travelled about 40kmh, suffered grazes and abrasions and was said to be 'extremely traumatised', police said.
'I am concerned about this offender and I'd like to get more information that will lead to his arrest,' Detective Inspector Aaron Pascoe said on Tuesday.
Police said the footage was taken on a camera on Haslett St.
'The time on the camera shows 1.53pm, however the clock on the camera is slow by four minutes and the actual time was 1.57pm,' Pascoe said.
'The footage shows the car approaching the no-exit end of the street and the driver turns the vehicle around.
'The next clip shows the car from another angle speeding away and turning left down Copeland St.
'We believe that it is highly likely that this is the vehicle we're looking for and that the victim was inside the car during this time.'
Pascoe said the victim has described being flung headfirst into the foot-well of the passenger seat by the offender, and being upside down and struggling to get out.
He said the two women seen in the second clip were not the witnesses who saw the victim fall out of the car.
'The car seems to be black in the footage, that may be because of the light at the time and the camera, we are however keeping an open mind and it could be black, but it could also be dark grey or silver,' Pascoe said.
Police had previously described the car as grey or silver and similar to a RAV4.