POLICE investigating a serious sexual assault on a woman in Colchester have arrested two men.

Annie Davidson

POLICE investigating a serious sexual assault on a woman in Colchester have arrested two men.

A woman alleged she had been attacked in the early hours of Saturday and yesterday detectives arrested a 27-year-old man in Colchester in connection with the alleged offence.

The woman was found in a distressed state by officers in Priory Street, Colchester, in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Two other men, aged 22 and 25, were arrested in Humberside today and were being bought to Colchester for questioning by police.