GO Transit officers will be at a Newmarket bus station today showing commuters an artist’s rendering of the suspect in a violent sexual assault that took place on a nearby pathway in the early hours of 2016.
According to police, an 18-year-old female victim was walking westbound on a pathway that runs parallel to Davis Drive from the Newmarket GO bus station at around 3 a.m. on Jan. 1 when she was approached by a man who grabbed her, forced her to the ground and then sexually assaulted her.
The attack was subsequently broken up by another man who came upon the scene. Police initially said that man left the scene without speaking to investigators, however in a release issued on Monday police confirmed that the man has since come forward.
Police, however, are continuing to appeal for information and are urging anyone who may have been around the GO bus station at the time of the attack to come forward.
The suspect is described as male, between the ages of 30 and 50, about five-foot-nine with a lean build. He was last seen wearing a light-grey jacket, a black hoodie, a black neck warmer and black boots.
Police say they do not believe the Jan. 1 attack is connected to a rash of sex assaults in the vicinity of the Upper Canada Mall in Newmarket in recent months.
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