A MAN is set to appear in court charged with a string of sex offences.

Peter Ferguson, 42, is charged with sexual assault by penetration, one offence of sexual touching and one offence of trespass with the intention of committing a sexual offence.

All offences are alleged to have happened in Highwoods in Colchester on Friday.

Ferguson, of Keelers Way, Great Horkesley is due at Colchester Magistrates' Court today.