POLICE officers taped off an underpass after a woman reported she had been sexually assaulted.

The woman said she was assaulted in the underpass at Festival Leisure Park, in Cranes Farm Road, Basildon, in the early hours of yesterday.

Officers began their investigations that afternoon and the underpass was taped off while police stood guard at the entrance.

Specialist officers investigating the incident were speaking to the victim so she could give a first-hand account of what happened.

Anyone with information about the attack can call police on 101.