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  • The girl grabbed the steering wheel forcing the car to crash in a ditch which helped her escape.

A man suspected to have raped a teenager was on Wednesday arrested by police after the girl bravely grabbed his car's steering wheel.

The suspect offered the girl and another primary school learner a lift from Kabuko to Limuru Town. He dropped off the pupil near St. Paul’s University and changed route while the teenage girl was still in his vehicle.

Instead of presiding to Limuru, the suspect diverted his car into the tea bushes where he defiled the girl and threatened to inject her with an unknown substance if she screams.

After he was done the man drove off with the girl in his car but when the teenager stopped tea leaves pickers she grabbed the wheel and the vehicle veered off the road and crashed in a ditch.

The girl stormed out of the vehicle screaming and the tea pickers rushed to help her. When she narrated her ordeal to them the angry mob descended on the alleged defiler and beat him up.

Police rescued the suspect from the angry tea pickers who had brutalised him. The area police boss, Eileen Mola said the suspect was rushed to hospital with head and facial injuries.

The teenager was rushed to Limuru Health Centre for medical attention.

Mr Mola said the suspect was found with Ksh1,000 notes suspected to be fake currency and he will be charged over their possession.