Woman among 2 arrested for ‘rape’ of British Sikh national

Two people, a man and a woman, have been arrested on suspicion of the racially aggravated rape of a British Sikh woman in Oldbury, in the West Midlands region of England last month.

The West Midlands Police on Friday said the arrests were made in connection with a second rape of a woman in her 30s at Halesowen in the same county on Thursday night, which was not being treated as racially aggravated. The pair was later additionally arrested in connection with the attack on the British Sikh woman in her 20s who reported being sexually assaulted at Tame Road in Oldbury, Sandwell, on September 9.

“A 49-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman from Sandwell were arrested this morning on suspicion of rape,” the police said in a statement on Friday.

“We were called at around 7pm after a woman in her 30s reported she has been attacked in Hurst Green Park. This incident is not being treated as racially aggravated. The man and woman have subsequently been arrested in connection with a rape on Tame Road, Oldbury on Tuesday, September 9. They remain in custody for questioning,” the statement said.said at the time.