Update: Indecent assault charges, Slade Point
Mackay detectives have charged a 31-year-old man with two counts of indecent assault following investigations into two separate incidents at Lamberts Beach, Slade Point.
Police will allege an 18-year-old woman was assaulted when a man walked up to her on January 19 as she was standing on rocks at Lamberts Beach. The man grabbed the woman several times before she managed to scream and flee his grasp.
It will be further alleged that a man assaulted a 22-year-old woman as she way laying on the beach on the afternoon of April 26. The woman managed to struggle free.
Neither woman was physically injured however both were extremely distressed following the alleged assaults.
Mackay detectives arrested a 31-year-old Slade Point man who has been denied police bail and is due to appear in the Mackay Magistrates Court on Monday, April 30.
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