Man charged with two counts of sexual assault after woman and girl attacked in Essex

A man from Uttlesford will appear at court on Thursday, 4 June charged with two counts of sexual assault.

The charges relate to two separate attacks in the Great Dunmow area.

In the first a woman in her 20s was assaulted in an alleyway off Chelmsford Road on the night of Thursday, 28 May.

The following day a 13-year-old girl was also assaulted in woodland off Tylers Avenue in the village of Flitch Green.

Oliver Purvis, 25, of Tanton Road in Flitch Green, was arrested on 1 June and will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court charged with the offences.