Priest ‘kidnapped and raped’ on Christmas Day after men lure him into car .Three men were arrested after the priest was reportedly abducted
The incident happened in Hartington Road, Toxteth, at around 4.10am, after the priest, a member of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, was contacted by men believed to have been known to him.
A friend of the priest told the ECHO he had received a call in the early hours stating there was important information he needed to be told immediately.
Three men allegedly arrived to meet him on Hartington Road and asked him to get into the car, and he was driven towards Edge Lane and then onto the M62.
The friend told the ECHO: “When the car suddenly turned onto Edge Lane he tried to call the police, but they took his phone away from him.”
The priest, aged in his 30s, was driven to a location off the motorway and brutally raped before being returned to his home address at around 6.10am.
Sources close to the priest said the incident is understood to be related to political upheavals in Eritrea, which has seen tensions between the church and Eritrea’s totalitarian one-party government.
Source: https://eritreahub.org/eritrean-priest- ... m-into-car