Overview
- Ballarat sexual offences and child abuse team detectives arrested and interviewed a 51-year-old Daylesford man on Wednesday.
- He was charged with common assault and aggravated assault over an alleged January 27 incident on the Goldfields Track near Daylesford.
- The man was bailed to appear at Ballarat Magistrates' Court on April 9.
- The complainant, Sarah Gibbs, reported that a man followed, grabbed and menaced her while she was hiking solo and showed police footage of the encounter.
- An earlier Victoria Police statement found no offence, which drew public concern about women's safety and prompted the renewed investigation.