Police are urging people using a popular Auckland track to go in pairs and carry a phone after a man made lewd sexual remarks to a woman out on a walk. She said as he walked passed he made a sexually-explicit remark before turning around and approaching her and continuing to make obscene suggestions. After pulling out her phone and telling him to back off, he fled when another man appeared on the track. Waitematā East area commander Inspector Simon Walker said police received a report of a man acting suspiciously along a walking track in the Long Bay Regional Park around 4pm. Walker said the man had reportedly made comments of a sexual nature towards a woman before walking away.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 06, 2021 02:59 UTC