Police are looking to identify two men after a woman was sexually assaulted in a North East cocktail bar before her partner was punched and left with a bleed on the brain.
Between 11pm and midnight on Saturday, October 8 last year, a woman reported being sexually assaulted.
She was reportedly touched while in Hoochie Coochie on Pilgrim Street in Newcastle.
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Staff at the venue then asked the man to leave the premises.
The woman and her partner later left the bar to see the offender was stood outside the company of a second man.
The second man is then reported to have punched the woman’s partner, knocking him to the pavement and leaving him with a fractured skull and bleed on the brain.
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Officers have today (Monday, February 20) released images of two men they would like to speak to in connection with both assaults.
A spokesperson for Northumbria Police said: “They were both in the area at the time the offence was committed and may be able to assist police with their enquires.
“Witnesses or anyone with any information should contact police via the ‘Tell Us Something’ page of our website or by calling 101 and quoting either 128539K/22 or 119982S/22.”
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