Another woman has come forward alleging sexual assault against convicted rapist Jeffrey Barnes, telling police she was attacked in the past few days, just prior to his Tuesday arrest on charges stemming from two incidents on Saturday.

The woman, reporting from overseas, had worked in the Cayman Islands and was “not a tourist”, according to RCIPS Detective Superintendent Marlon Bodden

“I am unhappy to report that another female has come forward and reported she had been raped by this individual.”

The report, he said, had come on Tuesday, but the incident “occurred some days earlier”, although he declined to say whether the alleged attack had come before or after Saturday’s effort, attributed to Barnes, to lure an 11-year-old girl into his car in Prospect’s Mahogany Way, immediately followed by the rape of a 49-year-old woman at Admiral’s Landing.

“That individual is off island,” Mr Bodden said of the woman in the latest report. “She worked here in the Cayman Islands. She was not a tourist, and we will investigate to get the exact specifics as to whether it was a rape or a sexual assault. It was reported to us today, but happened a few days ago. She was attacked while she was here,” Mr Bodden told a media gathering.

Making an appeal to the public, Mr Bodden said it was “absolutely imperative that anyone who may have been approached or attacked by this individual get in touch with us.”

The woman will return to Cayman “at some stage,” he said. “to aid and to talk to police” about the incident, although he declined to elaborate.

Investigations were ongoing into the charges against Barnes, who has already served a prison term for raping a 16-year-old and was charged recently with an attack on a 14-year-old. Only hours after the two Saturday incidents, police received a report from a Barnes-family member, alleging a sexual assault on someone in the unit.

Simultaneously with Barnes’ Tuesday arrest at Prospect’s Ocean Club residential complex, police also charged a woman with resisting their efforts to detain the suspect, although Mr Bodden was careful to limit his remarks.

“We also arrested a female for obstructing the police in the conduct of their duties,” he said, only identifying her as “not his mother, but a young woman”.

“We are assessing that avenue to see what the relationship is and we are investigating the charges of obstruction. We’ll see how far she obstructed us. If it proves that she was harbouring Barnes, we will look at those charges,” he said.

Barnes himself had not resisted arrest, but Mr Bodden would not say if any weapons were involved.

“Anywhere in the area where an individual is found is a crime scene,” he said, pointing out “these are operational matters, but once [Barnes] realised he was in the company of police officers, he gave up.”

The arrest had cleared the RCIPS backlog of “stranger assaults”, Mr Bodden said, although cases of ‘acquaintance assaults” remained on the register.

“There are no other matters outstanding to which Barnes has been linked,”  he said, nonetheless calling the series of attempts and assaults  “the most outrageous case in recent times”.

Police hoped to bring Barnes to court quickly, keeping him off the streets: “The criminal investigation department is quite high energy, and Barnes was an outstanding case. We hope to put the papers before the Director of Public Prosecutions with a view to getting a response.”