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UBC sex assault suspect Yuan Zhi Gao released on $50,000 bail

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WATCH: One of two suspects in a UBC sex assault, Yuan Zhi Gao, has been released on $50,000 bail. The hearing for co-accused David Singh Tucker has been adjourned for two weeks. Grace Ke reports from the Richmond courthouse – May 4, 2016

One of the two men charged in connection with an alleged sexual assault at the University of British Columbia‘s Point Grey Campus has now been granted bail.

Yuan Zhi Gao, 23, was granted release on $50,000 bail and a series of conditions, which include a curfew and a non-contact order with his co-accused.

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Gao faces a charge of break and enter to commit robbery, while 28-year-old David Singh Tucker faces multiple charges that include break and enter, sexual assault causing bodily harm, forcible confinement, robbery and wearing a mask with intent to commit an indictable offence.

The charges come after University RCMP were called to a break-and-enter at the 5700-block of Birney Avenue, in UBC’s southern residential neighbourhood, at 2:15 a.m. Saturday. Two suspects were immediately arrested and taken into custody.

Many of the details in the case are now subject to a court-ordered publication ban.

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