WA: Irish backpacker fights off abductor
By Selina Day
PERTH, April 16 AAP - An Irish backpacker has fought off a man who tried to abducther from a Perth street.
The 19-year-old woman had been walking alone to a backpackers hostel in inner-cityNorthbridge on Friday morning when a man leapt out at her from a parked car, police said.
The woman had been returning to her accommodation shortly before 1am (WST) after anight out at The Bog nightclub when the man leapt out of the passenger side of car andpunched her in the stomach.
He picked her up and dragged her back to the car.
The woman grabbed the man's ponytail and punched him in the face before managing toescape and run back to the hostel.
She and her boyfriend then went to police.
The woman, from Wexford in Ireland, had been in Perth for six weeks.
It was her first stop on an Australian backpacking holiday, police said.
Friday night was the first time she had been out without her boyfriend.
The couple is due to leave Australia on Saturday for New Zealand.
The woman told the West Australian newspaper the incident had shattered her idea ofPerth being a safe city.
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