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Police launch CCTV after lady was ‘sexually assaulted on a bus’

Police have launched a CCTV appeal to find a man wanted after a sex attack took place on a bus during the morning rush-hour commute.

Images of the wanted man were released by the force after a woman in her 20s suffered a sexual assault in Birmingham on Friday morning.

The incident took place on the Number 7 National Express West Midlands bus in the busy city street next to Birmingham Cathedral, at the end of the rush hour at 9am.

West Midlands Police say the man is white, with a dark, thick black beard, and was wearing a black cap, white t-shirt with coloured stripes, black trousers and trainers at the time of the assault.

He’s also pictured carrying a phone in his right hand and a black rucksack over his left shoulder.

Images of the man were released by the force after a woman in her 20s suffered a sexual assault in Birmingham on Friday morning

Images of the man were released by the force after a woman in her 20s suffered a sexual assault in Birmingham on Friday morning

West Midlands Police say the man is white, with a dark, thick black beard and was wearing a black cap, white t-shirt with coloured stripes, black trousers and trainers at the time of the assault.

West Midlands Police say the man is white, with a dark, thick black beard and was wearing a black cap, white t-shirt with coloured stripes, black trousers and trainers at the time of the assault.

A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: ‘Do you know who this is? We would like to speak with him following a sexual assault on a Number 7 bus in Colmore Row in Birmingham city centre just after 9am on 10 May.

‘If you can help, you can contact us via Live Chat on our website, or by calling 101 quoting crime reference 20/508802/24.’ Alternatively, anyone with any information cn contact independent charity, Crimestoppers, anonymously on 0800 555 111.’