A prescription delivery driver will appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court today charged with alleged sexual offences against someone on his round.

Dennis Reed, 68, of Sydney Street, Colchester, who works as a prescription delivery driver, will face one charge of attempted oral rape, one offence of sexual touching and charges of assault by beating.

The offences are alleged to have occurred at the home of an elderly woman in August.

The woman was part of Reed’s delivery round.