Three sus­pects be­lieved to have beat­en, robbed, raped and sodomised two women, af­ter ab­duct­ing them fol­low­ing a par­ty in San Fer­nan­do last week, have been ar­rest­ed by po­lice.

The sus­pects were nabbed around 3 am Fri­day at their homes in Di­a­mond Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do. A team of of­fi­cers head­ed by Sgt Clint Williams and in­clud­ing Cpl Nar­ine Bis­nath, PCs Mor­ris and Shel­don Go­sine went to the homes of the sus­pects and ar­rest­ed them. The men, aged 27, 24 and 22, who are a busi­ness­man, labour­er and me­chan­ic, were tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do CID where they were in­ter­viewed.

Po­lice said they will be in­ter­ro­gat­ed sep­a­rate­ly and pro­filed be­fore ap­pear­ing on iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rades in con­nec­tion with the rape.

The women, of South Oropouche and Siparia, were re­port­ed­ly ab­duct­ed, gang-raped and sodomised by four men in a white Nis­san 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. While they were wait­ing the four men pulled up and a gun­man or­dered them in­to the car. They were tak­en to a bushy area off the M2 Ring Road where they were sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed. They were lat­er dropped off in Pe­nal by the sus­pects, who did not both­er to hide their faces from the vic­tims. Po­lice said they are search­ing for a fourth sus­pect.

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

Once the men are charged they will ap­pear be­fore a San Fer­nan­do mag­is­trate. PC Go­sine is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.