Police have released vision of a man as part of their investigation into the indecent assault of a woman and wilful damage of a taxi at Palm Beach on Sunday August 25.
Shortly before 4.00am, a 51-year-old driver picked up a 20-year-old Palm Beach woman from an establishment at Broadbeach.
An unknown man approached the vehicle and asked if they were headed in the direction of ‘Tallebudgera’, before getting into the rear of the taxi.
The trio continued south. During the journey, the man reached forward to the front-passenger seat and indecently assaulted the sleeping woman for approximately two minutes.
The driver stopped at Tahiti Avenue to drop the woman off, where he realised what was occurring and intervened.
The man then exited the vehicle, opened the front passenger-door and attempted to forcefully remove the woman from the taxi.
The driver quickly drove away, while the man grabbed onto the side sliding-door of the taxi and ripped it off its hinges, causing it to fall onto the street.
Police are now appealing to anyone who knows the identity of the man pictured in the below footage to come forward.
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