A MAN, 47, will appear in court on Tuesday accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a random attack at Islington on Friday night.
Police said a woman, 23, was walking to her car on Maitland Road about 11.30pm when a man approached her from behind.
Police allege the man sexually assaulted the woman before a passerby intervened and chased him from Maitland Road into Beaumont Street and then Fern Street.
Newcastle City police were called and launched an investigation.
Following inquiries, police arrested a 47-year-old Windale man at a workplace at Sandgate about 8am on Monday.
He was taken to Newcastle police station and charged with aggravated sexual assault and inflict actual bodily harm.
The man was refused bail by police on Monday and will appear in Newcastle Local Court on Tuesday.
