POLICE are no longer searching for a man in connection with an alleged assault.

An appeal was launched last week to find Benjamin Oleksik, 22, whose last known address was in Sycamore Grove, in Southend.

Police wanted to speak to him in relation to an incident on July 4, where a man was involved in a verbal exchange with a woman, before punching her.

A 22-year-old man, thought to be Oleksik, was arrested in Southend this morning on suspicion of assault, for an assault on July 4.

He is currently being questioned by officers.