Magistrates court heard Ilaisa Tanoa Degei allegedly sexually assaulted a 21-year-old crew member in the early hours of the new year
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A man accused of raping an Australian flight attendant in the early hours of New Year’s Day has been refused bail ahead of a hearing in Fiji’s High Court.
Ilaisa Tanoa Degei, 24, a farmer from Navosa, on Fiji’s largest island Viti Levu, appeared before magistrate Mareta Tikoisuva charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of rape.
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