A man has been charged with rape after it was alleged a woman was attacked in Colchester.
Police officers were called to an address in the town yesterday morning.
A spokesman said: "We were called at around 1am on Thursday April 9 with reports a woman had been raped at an address in the town.
"A 31 year-old man was arrested a short time later."
Kamen Lawrence, of Morten Road, Colchester, has now been charged with rape and is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Saturday April 11.
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