On Sunday, 25 August 2013, just after 2.30 am a nineteen-year-old woman exited a taxi at the corner of High Street and Chapel Street in Prahran and was soon approached by a man who offered to walk her home. The teenage female refused but the male, who was described as being of Indian appearance and of medium build, continued walking with her and followed her into her apartment block where he forced her to the ground before seriously sexually assaulting her.