Former university groundskeeper facing third charge of sexual assault
HALIFAX — A former university groundskeeper accused of sexually assaulting two Halifax women in the past five months is now facing a third sexual assault charge.
Halifax police said Thursday Mathew Albert Percy, 34, a former Saint Mary’s University employee, has been charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm in an alleged 2014 incident involving a third woman.
Police said that woman had come forward with a complaint on Dec 8, 2014, alleging she had been sexually assaulted two days earlier by a man known to her while they were at a residence on Lemarchant Street in Halifax.
The police force’s Sexual Assault Investigative Team looked into the case, but no charges were laid and the file was closed on Jan. 5, 2015.