Kettering man charged with serious sexual assault in Banbury

The charge is in connection with a rape in Newlands Place on Saturday 1 February

Author: Andrea FoxPublished 4th Feb 2025

Thames Valley Police officers investigating a rape in Banbury have made a charge today.

Amos Makuyana, aged 26, Reservoir Road, Kettering, Northamptonshire is now charged with one count of rape.

The charge is in connection with a rape in Newlands Place, Banbury.

The victim, who police say is a woman aged in her late teens, was the attacked in the Oxfordshire town on Saturday.

Makuyana was taken into custody on Saturday, and has been remanded in custody to appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court today (February 4).

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