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| Man arrested over eight 'linked' sex assaults in Clapham area | Man arrested over eight 'linked' sex assaults in Clapham area |
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| A man has been arrested in connection with eight sexual assaults within three weeks in south London. | |
| The 34-year-old man from Lambeth was arrested on Thursday and is in custody at a south London police station. | The 34-year-old man from Lambeth was arrested on Thursday and is in custody at a south London police station. |
| Police had appealed for information over a series of attacks, including one on a 26-year-old woman who was sexually assaulted on her doorstep. | |
| Officers are appealing for any witnesses to the attacks in the Clapham and Brixton Hill areas to come forward. | |
| The first incident took place on 9 October when a 23-year-old woman was grabbed and sexually assaulted on Clitheroe Road, Clapham. | |
| She managed to raise the alarm and the suspect ran off, the Met Police said. | |
| Increased patrols | |
| Two hours later, a 30-year-old woman was grabbed in Deauville Court when a man approached her and tried to talk to her. | |
| She asked him to leave her alone but he assaulted her before walking away. | |
| On 22 October, a man put his hand up the dress of a 32-year-old woman walking along Trent Road. | |
| Four days later a further three incidents occurred, police said. | |
| About an hour before the woman was assaulted on her doorstep, a 35-year-old was grabbed from behind on Arodene Road as she walked home. | |
| An hour later a man exposed himself to a 28-year-old woman on Sandmere Road as she entered her house. | |
| Two more incidents were reported to police on Wednesday, when at 19:20 GMT a 28-year-old woman was grabbed on Southwell Road and three hours later a 31-year-old woman was pushed into a nearby block of flats along Sudbourne Road. | |
| She was sexually assaulted before the suspect ran away. | |
| Supt Rob Applegarth said: "We are aware of eight assaults which we are linking at this early stage. | |
| "We have increased police patrols in Clapham and Brixton Hill and urge women to think of their personal safety." |