Pacific / Samoa

Samoan man pleads guilty to rape of Australian woman

11:04 am on 24 June 2019

A Samoan man has pleaded guilty to raping an Australian woman in Samoa last November.

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Thirty-year-old Terry Faatai entered a guilty plea through his lawyer Tuala Joe Ponafasio.

Justice Leiataulesa Daryl Clarke issued name suppression for the complainant and allowed a defence request that Faatai be able to apologise to the complainant before she departed for Australia.

Faatai apologised to the complainant and asked for her forgiveness.

Faatai remains in custody.