A man has been arrested on suspicion of rape after police believe a woman was the victim of a racially aggravated attack.
West Midlands police were called to the Park Hall area of Walsall just after 7.15pm on Saturday after a woman was reported to be distressed in the street.
The force said the woman, in her 20s, had been raped and assaulted at a nearby property by a man she did not know.
A 32-year-old man was arrested just before 7am on Monday in the Perry Barr area of Birmingham and would be questioned, police said.
DS Ronan Tyrer, from the force’s public protection unit, said: “This is a significant development in our investigation, and I’d like to thank everyone who has come forward with information following our appeal last night.
“Our investigation will progress today, and, as always our priority is the woman who was the subject of this attack. She has been updated this morning and will continue to receive full support from specially trained officers.”
Preet Kaur Gill, the Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, posted on X that she was “deeply shocked and saddened” to hear of another racially aggravated rape.
Last month, a Sikh woman was raped in grassland on Tame Road, Oldbury, in an incident also treated as racially aggravated. Police were not connecting the two incidents.
The force is urging anyone with information to contact them via 101, quoting log 4027 of October 25.
