Overview
- Police charged 30-year-old Sohail Amiri of Highfield Lane with three counts of sexual assault and with entering the UK without leave under Section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971.
- The case includes an alleged incident on Upper Shaftesbury Avenue in the early hours of November 25 in which a woman reported a man tried to kiss her before she got away.
- Two further charges relate to September 23 on Westwood Road, where he is accused of approaching two women and making inappropriate comments and advances.
- The Express reports Amiri was remanded in custody at Southampton Magistrates' Court and is due to appear at Southampton Crown Court on Monday, January 5.
- Hampshire Constabulary said the man has claimed to be from Afghanistan, and local reporting notes recent protests near Highfield House Hotel, which is said to house asylum seekers.