Bail hearing to continue for Alberta man accused of sexually assaulting five women
Posted Jun 7, 2023 2:44 pm.
A bail hearing for a man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women in Calgary will continue later this month.
Richard Robert Mantha, 59, faces numerous charges that include kidnapping, forcible confinement, sexual assault with a weapon, sexual assault causing bodily harm, and administering a noxious substance.
His bail hearing started Wednesday in Court of King’s Bench, but the details are covered by a publication ban.
It is to continue on June 22.
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Police have said five women allege they were approached by a man, then drugged and taken to another location, where they were physically and sexually assaulted.
Mantha was charged after officers cordoned off a property east of Calgary in April and brought in cadaver dogs, but police said at the time that no bodies were found.
