A police hunt is under way to track down a sex predator who assaulted three women in the space of just minutes on Edinburgh streets.Well, I'm sure the good citizens of that fair city will assist you in tracking this animal down. If they can.
The suspect is described as being of Asian appearance, aged between 25 and mid-30s, slim build, around 5ft 8in tall, with light facial hair. He was wearing a khaki or brown-coloured coat and carrying a backpack.
'Asian', eh? Well. Edinburgh does have a lot of Japanese tourists, as I know, having been asked by a trio of giggling Japanese girls to photograph them in front of Greyfriars Bobby's statue last time I was there. But I don't think that's really what they mean...
The first assault happened around 5.20pm on Fettes Row, where a woman was approached from behind by a man who sexually assaulted her and made sexual comments.
Just ten minutes later, at around 5.30pm, another woman was attacked as she walked her dog on Inverleith Row. She was also approached from behind and sexually assaulted before the man walked off towards Dundas Street.
A short time after that, a third woman was targeted as she walked past Stockbridge Church on Saxe Coburg Street. The man sexually assaulted her and exposed himself before fleeing the scene. Police believe the same man was responsible for all three incidents.
I know all those places, as Fettes Row is at the end of Royal Crescent, whrere my brother lives, and those are the streets I walk when I go to Stockbridge - they are all remarkably quiet streets where anyone non-white will stick out like a sore thumb. Well off the well-beaten tourist track, apart from Stockbridge itself, so an odd area for a sex maniac to lurk in.
So a better description would help enormously.
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