9 Nov 2020

Trial starts for prison sexual assaults

From Checkpoint, 5:53 pm on 9 November 2020

Warning: The descriptions and details in this story may distress some people.

A prison inmate thought he was going to die after allegedly being forced to perform sex acts on his bunk mate.

Benjamin Nilesh Goundar is on trial at the High Court in Wellington and denies the charges of common assault, sexual violence and threatening to kill while at Rimutaka Prison.

Jonathan Mitchell reports.

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