‘Sex attacker’, 24, charged with four separate assaults on young women walking by themselves on same beach
POLICE investigating four separate sex assaults on women on a beach in Brighton have arrested and charged a 24-year-old man.
The assaults all happened in February and police have now said that Mohamed Abdelsalam, 24, has been charged with four separate offences.
A spokesman for Sussex Police said: “Police in Brighton have charged and remanded a man in connection with a number of sexual assaults on lone women on the beach.
“Mohamed Abdelsalam, of Preston Road, Brighton, has been charged with three counts of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration in relation to four separate reports in February.
“In each instance, the victims reported being approached by a man while alone on or near the beach, persistently spoken to in a sexualised manner and sexually assaulted.
“The four victims – who were all women aged in their late teens and 20s – reported being assaulted at night or in the early hours of the morning on February 11, 12, 16 and 25.
“The victim of the last assault was assisted by Beach Patrol – a team that patrols Brighton seafront at night identifying and protecting vulnerable people.
“Abdelsalam was subsequently arrested and has been remanded in custody pending a trial on Monday, March 27, at a court to be decided.”