A man accused of raping an Australian flight attendant in the early hours of New Year’s Day has been refused bail before a hearing in Fiji’s high court.

Ilaisa Tanoa Degei, 24, a farmer from Navosa, on Fiji’s largest island, Viti Levu, appeared before a magistrate, Mareta Tikoisuva, charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of rape.

Nadi magistrates court heard allegations that in the early hours of the new year Degei sexually assaulted and digitally raped the 21-year-old Virgin crew member, from Melbourne.

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    5 days ago

    Unfortunate company name to be involved in such a headline. Legitimately was curious why that would be relevant in any title until I confirmed the airline, hence the proper noun…

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    Very unfortunate, but are we really meant to monitor every rape in the world as world news?

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      4 days ago

      You could always google it yourself.

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        While true that they could have searched on the internet, in the time it took you to berate them you could given them am answer.

        Also, this is Lemmy, you should have said “you can DDG it”.

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        I did, but didn’t find anything until I just did a second search. Never heard the term before.