Adelaide residents reported a man acting suspiciously to police just days before he allegedly broke into a woman's home at Mount Pleasant and raped her.
A Kersbrook woman was in her kitchen on Monday night when she was startled by a man on her property.
“As she's popped up from the dishwasher, she's just noticed a man staring at her through the kitchen window and he's tapping on the window with like a real murky, muddy water,” resident Corey Phillips said.
She woke her husband, who confronted the stranger. “Just asking for help and just talking riddles wasn't making much sense and I just told him he's scaring the wife and he has to leave,” he said.
The man jumped over the family's back fence and under the cover of darkness said something about “going to God”. A police report was made but the suspect wasn't located.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the man is accused of breaking into a home at Mount Pleasant and raping a woman inside. The sickening incident sparked a manhunt, and he was arrested seven hours later at the town's bakery.
“It's horrible. So, you know, and to think that could have been, that's obviously someone else's family member and what they must be feeling,” Phillips said.
In court on Thursday, the alleged offender had a thick bandage wrapped around his head with a lot of dried blood visible. The magistrate heard the accused has not been complying with police forensic procedures. He's been remanded in custody.
