The sus­pects be­lieved to have beat­en, robbed, raped and sodomised two women af­ter ab­duct­ing them fol­low­ing a par­ty in San Fer­nan­do last week, are still in po­lice cus­tody.

Po­lice sources said Sun­day that the sus­pects, aged 22, 24 and 27 of Di­a­mond Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore ID pa­rades. Once they are pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied the men will face charges of sex­u­al as­sault.

On Fri­day, po­lice led by Sgt Clint Williams and in­clud­ing Cpl Nar­ine Bis­nath, PCs Mor­ris and Shel­don Go­sine act­ed on a tip-off and ar­rest­ed the sus­pects at their homes.

One of the sus­pects is a busi­ness­man while the oth­ers work as a labour­er and me­chan­ic. Two of the sus­pects have pend­ing mat­ters at the San Fer­nan­do High Court for rob­bery-re­lat­ed of­fences. All three men are ex­pect­ed to be pro­filed.

The women of South Oropouche and Siparia were ab­duct­ed, gang-raped and sodomised by four men in a white Ti­i­da on De­cem­ber 30.

The friends said they went par­ty­ing at Club La Ve­ga in San Fer­nan­do and at around 3.15 am they tried to get trans­porta­tion to go home. But while the friends were wait­ing four men pulled up in a car and a gun­man or­dered them in­side. The women were tak­en to a bushy off the M2 Ring Road where they were sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed. The sus­pects al­leged­ly did not even both­er to hide their faces. The women were sub­se­quent­ly dropped off in Pe­nal.

Po­lice have since ad­vised women to de­sist from trav­el­ling alone or from en­ter­ing un­known pri­vate ve­hi­cles.

The sus­pects will ap­pear be­fore a San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate on Tues­day once they are charged. PC Go­sine is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.