A man has been arrested in Thornton Heath after a string of sex attacks on lone women.
The three attacks, which have been forensically linked, took place in Streatham and Norbury.
Police arrested the 28-year-old in Thornton Heath yesterday. He remained in custody a south-west London police station this afternoon.
The first of the attacks took place at about 10pm on December 20, when a 29-year-old woman was attacked from behind in Challice Way, Streatham.
The attacker punched her, knocking her to the ground, and assaulted her until he was interrupted by a member of the public.
Several hours later at 1am on December 21 the same man is believed to have followed a 20-year-old woman along Streatham Common South and into Convington Way, where he forced her to the ground and sexually assaulted her before running away.
A third attack took place in Norbury at 2.30am on March 27. A woman in her 20s was walking along Granville Close when she was attacked from behind and sexually assaulted.
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command are investigating.
Anyone with information is asked to call police on 020 8217 6538 or call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
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