Thirty-one-year-old charged with assaulting woman was stabbed in the side

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A Queensland man has been accused of tying up a woman and threatening to set her alight during a 14-hour ordeal in which she was also raped and tortured.

Police say the 29-year-old woman will spend days in hospital after the attack, in which someone she knew also doused her in petrol.

A 31-year-old man accused of the horrifying assault is also in hospital after he was stabbed in the side.

Police said the woman had voluntarily gone to a Maroochydore home on Wednesday night but had not been allowed to leave. She had been held and attacked over 14 hours before she was able to make a panicked call for help.

“Police will allege that part of those assaults included the woman having petrol poured over her and threatened to being set alight as well as being assaulted with objects,” Detective Sergeant Chris Eaton said on Friday.

“From there, the female victim was able to use a telephone yesterday morning whilst the offender was distracted.

“She was able to call friends who subsequently attended at the address. It was at the address at that time that the male person has sustained the stab wound and police are investigating that particular matter.”

Police said the woman knew her alleged attacker but they were not in a relationship.

“The female victim is still in hospital,” Eaton said. “Her injuries are non life-threatening but they are serious injuries.

“It would have been terrifying for the victim. We will allege that she was tied up for a protracted period of that time.”

The man’s stab wound is not life-threatening and police are still trying to work out who attacked him.

“A number of people were spoken to yesterday … At this stage no one has been charged in relation to the stab wound to the male offender.”

The man has been charged with rape, torture, deprivation of liberty, acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning bodily harm.

He will face a bedside court hearing on Friday.