A man has been charged in connection with an investigation into a report a girl was sexually assaulted on a bus in Basildon

Oliver Kent

It was reported a man approached the girl and kissed her on the cheek on a bus in Uppermayne on 18 November last year.

A 72 year-old man was arrested on Saturday.

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