A 22-year-old man is now in critical condition in hospital after a woman he is alleged to have been attempting to rape stabbed him several times on Monday, THE STAR understands.

Police say the man, for whom they had been searching for in connection with several other cases of rape in the May Pen area, has not been charged because of the seriousness of his condition in the May Pen Hospital, Clarendon.

He had turned up for treatment for stab wounds, but while at the hospital, police say another woman pointed him out as the man who raped her last Saturday. A report given to the police said that the latest person he attempted to rape, a 27-year-old model, was tricked into visiting the man's home after he promised to sponsor her in a beauty contest.

It is reported that when she went to his district, he took her to some bushes, telling her it was a shortcut to his house.

In the bushes she was held at knifepoint after she became suspicious and decided not to go further.

In recalling her ordeal for THE STAR, the young woman said, "He then grabbed my bag after which he hit me in the back with a stone. He then pulled out a ratchet knife and gave me a stab in my right hand. I got very scared at that moment and asked God, what I had got myself into."