Woman in her 40s ‘raped on woodland path’ with man arrested

The suspected attack happened on the path through the Boscombe nature reserve (Picture: Google)

A man in his 60s has been arrested after a suspected rape on a nature path near Bournemouth beachfront.

Detectives continue to probe a suspected rape in the Boscombe area of Bournemouth after reports of an attack on Wednesday evening.

It unfolded after a woman, in her 40s, and a man had met on Woodland Walk that evening.

Dorset Police said it received a report of the rape at 12.16am on Thursday night, and that the attack occurred around three hours earlier.

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