AN 18-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with rape following an incident at a massage parlour.
Lutfi Mata, of Wrotham Road, Gravesend, was arrested on October 11 in connection with the knife-point rape of three Hemel Hempstead massage parlour workers last month.
The arrest comes one month after a gang of men got into a massage parlour and threatened the women inside with knives, before raping them and making off with cash and mobile phones.
It is alleged two massage parlour workers were threatened at knife-point and robbed of more than £1,000 in cash and mobile phones by the same gang of men, who are believed to be of eastern European origin.
Mr Mata was also charged in connection with an aggravated burglary at another location, in Watford, on September 15.
Mr Mata appeared at Watford Magistrates' Court on October 13 but did not enter a plea to the charges.
Mr Mata will remain in custody until a preliminary hearing in St Albans Crown Court on January 23, next year.
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