Incident at site of previous serious assaults

GARDAÍ do not believe a man arrested for an unwanted approach to three young women in Athlone is linked to four previous assaults on women at the same location.

The man stopped his car at Bonavalley Bridge just after midnight yesterday and ran towards the women. There was a confrontation, before he fled in his car.

The bridge is the location of four serious assaults on women over the past two years, sparking an alarm it could be the same man.