Detectives want to trace a man wanted in connection with an alleged sexual assault on a 51-year-old woman in Colchester.
The incident allegedly took place in Moy Road on Wednesday last week between 12.50pm and 1.10pm.
The alleged perpetrator is believed to have made off along Moy Road.
The man is described as white, between 6ft 1in and 6ft 2ins tall, muscular, with bleached blond hair and a wispy beard and brown eyes.
He had a bar piercing above the left eye, a pierced lip and left ear, and red and green tattoos on his hands. He wore grey light tracksuit bottoms, a white tee-shirt and denim jacket.
He was described as having a Newcastle accent.
Anyone with information is asked to call DI Hayley King at Colchester police station on 101.
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