Indian-origin man held guilty of raping two women in NZ

An Indian-origin man was today found guilty by a court in New Zealand, of kidnapping and raping two young women in 2008.
Pravin Fia Hari Prasad Kumar faced retrial in the High Court at Auckland for the rape, kidnapping and sexual assault.
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced in December, Fairfax Media reported.
While on bail for the 2008 rapes he escaped his electronic monitoring and did not attend his first trial, but it went ahead in his absence and he was convicted, it said.
The conviction was later quashed and a retrial ordered by the Court of Appeal. He was captured after contacting one of the women on the Internet, the report said.

Kumar, who has a history of violence against women, deceitfully obtained one of his victim's phone numbers, for the care home where she lived, by calling a string of people and pretending to be a doctor.
Crown prosecutor Alysha McClintock told the court that Kumar was a man "who had a clear sense of entitlement to have sex" with the victims, it said.