Police withdraw all but one indecent assault charge against rap artist

All however one indecent assault cost have been dropped towards a person who has been in custody for a month on prices of kidnapping and raping a lady.

After the police withdrew 12 prices towards Martin Frost, a rap artist who is called Younger Shuck, bail was now not opposed and he has now been launched.

Bail was refused earlier than Christmas for Frost, and has remained in custody forward of an software for launch on electronically monitored bail which was scheduled to be heard this coming Friday.

He initially confronted prices of abducting a lady for intercourse, two prices of rape, in addition to indecent assault, a number of prices of illegal sexual connection, and supplying the drug ecstasy.

He was as a consequence of enter pleas to all these prices right now, however as an alternative defence counsel April Kelland instructed Christchurch District Court docket Decide Quentin Hix that the police had filed a memorandum in search of to withdraw all however one cost.

Kelland stated the defence didn’t oppose the withdrawals.

The defence can generally ask for prices to be dismissed in order that they can’t be relaid.

Frost remains to be charged with indecently assaulting a lady in a single day on November 28 to 29, and he has pleaded not responsible to that. The cost has been remanded to a case overview listening to on February 17.

Decide Hix launched Frost on situations that he reside at a specified tackle in Bexley, haven’t any contact with the complainant and keep a specified distance away from two addresses in Christchurch and rural Canterbury.

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