Marc Catelli: Concord gelato salesman charged over sex assault

Police allege a Sydney man who sells gelato for a living “recklessly harmed” a young woman 17-years his junior during a sexual assault after meeting on Tinder.

Marc Catelli, 37, who has been charged with aggravated sexual assault after an incident involving a 20-year-old woman he met on Tinder in March.

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A Sydney man “recklessly harmed” a young woman 17-years his junior during a sexual assault after meeting on Tinder, police will allege.

The allegations surrounding Concord man Marc Catelli, 37, can be revealed after he appeared in Burwood Local Court on Monday for the first time.

He has been charged with aggravated sexual assault after the incident at a Leichhardt home earlier this year.

Catelli will face court again later this year.

Police allege Catelli, who works in western Sydney selling gelato, met the 20-year-old woman on a dating app before agreeing to meet up in person on March 15.

While at the home during the day, according to court documents, Catelli allegedly had sex with the woman without her consent and “inflicted actual bodily harm” to her during the encounter.

The alleged victim had contacted Leichhardt Police Area Command detectives in the wake of the incident and they spent months investigating the case.

Catelli’s social media is littered with images from picturesque places across the world.

In the last two months five women have reported to police in Sydney’s inner west they had been sexually assaulted after meeting a man on Tinder and a number of people have recently been put before the courts on serious charges.

Catelli was arrested at a Rydalmere home seven months later on October 19 and has been on bail since being charged.

Wearing shorts, he sat quietly in court as his lawyer Michael Hume asked police for the brief of evidence, outlining detectives’ case against Catelli.

According to his LinkedIn profile Catelli has been the sales manager at Mr Pisa Gelato in Rydalmere since January 2009.

Magistrate Greg Grogin adjourned the case to be heard back in the same court in December.

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