Suspect in violent assault of Toronto woman on Vancouver's seawall released on house arrest

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· Posted: May 20, 2025 8:30 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

The fishy successful a alien onslaught connected Vancouver's seawall past period has been released, constabulary said Tuesday.

Peterhans Nungu, 34, was arrested and charged with battle causing bodily harm, constabulary said, successful transportation with the assault in Coal Harbour connected April 15. 

News of the apprehension came aft a Toronto pistillate shared details of the convulsive onslaught connected societal media.

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In a Tuesday caller release, constabulary said Nungu was granted bail and released from constabulary custody on April 23, but was transferred to a unafraid aesculapian facility where helium was under aesculapian supervision. Police said helium was released from determination connected Tuesday and volition beryllium surviving nether location apprehension in Vancouver.

Nungu's bail conditions include that he cannot contact the victim, person weapons, oregon devour intoxicant and drugs. He is nether around-the-clock location arrest unless helium has support to permission for enactment oregon a aesculapian appointment, constabulary said. 

Officers volition show Nungu during his release, constabulary said. Anyone with accusation astir alleged breaches of the bail conditions is asked to interaction constabulary immediately.

In a video posted to TikTok past month, a pistillate said she was walking not acold from her edifice successful Coal Harbour erstwhile a antheral said thing to her, ran astatine her, grabbed her overgarment and threw her to the ground.

She said she was capable to combat the antheral disconnected and get away, but helium continued his pursuit.

The pistillate said helium smashed her telephone erstwhile she tried to telephone 911 and started striking her successful the head, adding that astatine 1 constituent she blacked out.

CBC News contacted the TikTok idiosyncratic aft the video was posted, but did not perceive back.

The B.C. Prosecution Service confirmed past period that a idiosyncratic with the aforesaid sanction arsenic Nungu was charged successful Surrey connected April 14 with battle of a bid officer, uttering a menace to origin decease oregon bodily harm to different idiosyncratic and uttering a menace to origin harm to property. He appeared successful tribunal that time and was released.