A suspect has been arrested and charged with multiple offences after a woman was allegedly attacked, robbed, and sexually assaulted by a stranger in a Stanley Park bathroom on Monday.
Vancouver Police responded shorlty before 11 a.m. on Monday after a witness saw a suspicious man enter the women’s changing room near the Second Beach pool. When VPD officers arrived, they found a woman in her 40s who had been robbed and violently assaulted.
Officers located a suspect nearby and took him into custody.
The victim received treatment at hospital.
Hartley Ronald Duckhorn, 35, is now charged with the following criminal offences:
- Assault by choking
- Unlawful confinement
- Sexual assault with a weapon
- Robbery
- Uttering threat to cause death or bodily harm
He remains in custody pending a bail hearing.
