Newcastle man arrested over numerous offences

A man from Newcastle-under-Lyme has been arrested on suspicion of a series of offences following a report of an assault in Leek. Damage was also caused to the address.

He had left the scene but was later detained at Rugeley Trent Valley. 

The 27-year-old man, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, has been arrested on suspicion of rape of a woman, assaulting a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm, possession of a knife in a public place, possession of an offensive weapon in a public place, threats to kill, affray, causing obstruction of an engine / carriage using the railway and criminal damage.