A former professional football player and financial planner has been charged over the alleged torture and assault of a young woman at a Bulimba townhouse earlier this month.
Jeromy Lee Harris, 41, a former National Soccer League midfielder for the Brisbane Strikers, Marconi, and Sydney Olympic, was charged on Thursday with acts intended to disfigure, acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm, torture, deprivation of liberty and two counts of supply dangerous drug.
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Queensland police arrest a man at Clayfield after the serious assault of a woman at Bulimba on July 2.
The 21-year-old woman remains in an induced coma at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital after she was found with "horrific" life-threatening injuries all over her body.
She was found after a man called emergency services to a Bulimba townhouse on July 2.
A police spokeswoman said Mr Harris, originally from Rockhampton, lived at the townhouse where the woman was found.
On July 10, Nicholas John Crilley, believed to be the woman's partner, started a police chase and allegedly rammed two police cars and stole two other vehicles before he was taken into custody.
The 31-year-old Bald Hills man was charged with a number of offences including serious assault police, robbery, stealing, acts intended to disfigure, torture and deprivation of liberty.
On Thursday Mr Harris was also charged in relation to the incident.
Mr Harris won two NSL championships, first with the Brisbane Strikers in 1997 and with Sydney Olympic in 2002.
Mr Harris, currently a financial broker at Sunshine Home Loans, will appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday.
Detective Senior Sergeant Rod Watts said the 21-year-old woman had sustained "horrific" injuries that included burns to her body and facial fractures.
"We believe the injuries occurred over a number of weeks but we're uncertain of where they've taken place," he said on Tuesday.
Senior Sergeant Watts said police did not believe the incidents took place at her and Crilley's Bulimba property.
"It's obviously very difficult when we can't speak to her to actually find out what did happen," he said.
"When she recovers we'll attempt to speak with her and get her side of the story."
- with AAP