The Vancouver Police Department has arrested and charged a man with multiple offences after a woman was allegedly attacked, robbed, and sexually assaulted by a stranger in a Stanley Park bathroom yesterday.
Vancouver Police responded shortly before 11 a.m. Monday, after a witness saw a suspicious man entering the women’s changing room near the Second Beach pool. When VPD officers arrived, they found a woman in her 40s who had been robbed and violently assaulted. Officers located a suspect nearby and took him into custody. The woman was taken to hospital for treatment.
He remains in custody pending a bail hearing.
Hartley Ronald Duckhorn, 35, is now charged with the following criminal offences:
- Assault by choking
- Unlawful confinement
- Sexual assault with a weapon
- Robbery
- Uttering threat to cause death or bodily harm
