Police say they have gotten to the bottom of a viral social media post in November that described a violent sexual assault that left a woman in hospital in Vancouver.
In a statement on Wednesday (Nov. 29), Sgt. Steve Addison called the nature of the allegations “extremely concerning,” and sparked an investigation on Nov. 4 after a post on Instagram was reshared widely described a woman being abducted by a man dressed all in black and sexually assaulted while walking away from a pub near Victoria Drive and Powell Street.