A 61-year-old man denied a sex assault on a woman yesterday.

The man, from Sandys, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to two charges of intruding on a 20-year-old woman and one charge of sexual assault.

The incident is alleged to have happened in Sandys on August 22 last year. Magistrate Maxanne Anderson adjourned the case until June 3.

She released the defendant on $5,000 bail and ordered that he have no contact with the alleged victim.

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