 For those who don't know, my name is Detective Inspector Bob Hitch, I'm a Detective Inspector Brisbane West Police District. I'm here today, if we're right to go. You're right. Metropolitan North Police are making an appeal for information to assist with a number of assaults that have occurred in the Metro North area. We're investigating three complaints of asexual nature. Of particular interest we're interested in anyone out there who may be the victim of a similar type of assault or has information that may be able to assist us with our investigations. The assaults have taken place in relation to an ad has been placed on a social website. A number of female students have answered the ad on the website. Following the ad being placed, contact has been made with the female students. From that contact there has been a meeting. That meeting has taken place in a street within the Brisbane City area. From there the victims, it will be alleged, transported up to Mount Coofa and it is whilst at Mount Coofa we're alleging that they have been supplied with some stupefying drugs with the intention of asexual assault. We're interested if there are any other students out there who know of victims or the victims themselves that are able to come forward and contact us. We ask that they contact Police Link or they contact Crime Stoppers so that they can assist us with the enquiries. They are predominantly students. They're young females who are visiting Australia. They're students. I won't go into their students predominantly here to study English. The ad is just a social networking ad to make contact and to talk about exchanging language skills. We believe from the nature of our enquiries to date that there is most likely other people out there that may have not come forward. We ask that they do come forward because we greatly need their assistance in relation to our investigations. I won't make comment on the website at this stage. It's just a general social networking website in the Brisbane metropolitan area. No. What's happened is we've had three separate complainants come forward over the last week independently and they have made complaints of a similar nature and it is from there that we've identified that there is a bit of a trend. They're young girls. They're not juveniles but they're young adults. At this stage there is a gentleman who is assisting Police with our enquiries. I don't intend to make any more comments in relation to that. I won't go into too many details in relation to the offences except to appeal to the public. There's a certain method of operation and that being as I've outlined the introduction using the webpage, the meeting in the city and the drive up to Mount Coot-tha and the application of what we believe to be a stupefying drug. At this stage those investigations are still ongoing. We believe at this stage it will be alleged that the drug has been administered by a drink, yes. On Mount Coot-tha. That's what we're alleging, yes. I won't go into details. They've driven up to Mount Coot-tha and they've parked in the areas that are available up at the top and around the summit, that sort of area. We're still conducting our enquiries. There's a gentleman as I've indicated in the release who's currently assisting with our enquiries. But we're appealing that we believe that there are fervour victims out there that for some reason have felt uncomfortable and haven't come forward and we're asking them to come forward and assist us. Our enquiries to date strongly suggest that there are other people out there or it's most likely there are other people out there. And I don't intend to elaborate any fervour in relation to the website more than that. We believe that sort of information should be able to identify other victims or complainants out there within the community. Look, we're alleging that a stupefying drug has been used. You can make your own conclusions from there. Yes, the victims at this stage are in good spirits and they have been assisting us greatly with our enquiries. And there's been no difficulties. They are foreign students so there are some language issues but we've had no difficulties in our communication with them. At this stage all I'm prepared to say is that because I don't want to narrow down the investigation search but at this stage they are young Asian girls. There are striking similarities at this stage in relation to the three offences that we are investigating and we will be alleging that the meetings take place. They've met in the city. They've then driven from the city up by motor vehicle up to Mount Coopah and it's up at Mount Coopah that there's been further conversations and that's where we believe on each of the occasions there's been an attempt or there has been the application of a stupefying drug. Yes. I won't go into the exact details but our enquiries indicate that it is in the same location. It's on the street within the city, on the street itself. Yes. We don't know how many there will be out there. We don't know at this stage how long. This may have been going on for but we're confident that there will be others out there and we're appealing for them to come forward. I don't intend to go into any further details in relation to the alleged assaults except to say that we believe that was the purpose for the alleged administered of the drug. Well it naturally is if they've been administered of the drug it's there's been a bit of a delay in the reporting of the incidents to us not at this stage. I won't go into the exact details and each of the details for each of the assaults differ following the basic MA that I've already given you. I don't intend to make any comments in relation to anyone who's assisting us with the enquiries at this stage. Is he cooperating with us? I can't make any comments in relation to that. They were young girls, young females but they weren't juvenile. At this stage I won't go into too much detail but these are three separate girls who to our knowledge don't know each other. Look anyone out there who has met someone on a social networking page and they've answered an ad and following that ad they've met in a street in the city and then gone up to Mount Coopa. That in itself is sufficient information to identify the sort of incident that we're referring to and we don't wish to go any further into the details of them and that at this stage. We're making enquiries and making investigations into that regard. They're students who are they're a mature student they're not students at high school they're students who are look I won't go into it but they're a mature student should be a sufficient description. I can't go into any details in relation to the specifics of any conversations or particulars of the alleged offences other than what I've given you. I look it's in relation to language studies and that's how I'll leave it. Around the summit they've all travelled up to Mount Coopa and that would be a it's it's not in the summit car park area but in the general vicinity. Look I won't go into any further details in relation to the nature of where we are up with our enquiries at this stage. The vehicle is a white sedan it's alleged that they've taken place in the afternoon and into the evening well in late late in the afternoon but look without going into specifics when the sun's risen and set. Well the attacks the attacks the pickup has been during that period of time. Details in relation to the actual assaults are later in and I won't go into any further details than that. Not at this stage no. At this stage we're still canvassing our enquiries in that regard. Taking into consideration people up at Mount Coopa may have witnessed or seen something which they think is suspicious but certainly within the streets in Brisbane that would be highly unlikely because it would have been a very innocuous sort of act of a person getting into a motor vehicle but certainly up at Mount Coopa if anyone has seen anything suspicious or any sort of concerning behaviour involving a male and a female by all means come forward we'd be interested in obtaining some information. Thank you.