Police are renewing their appeal to identify a young man who has continued to indecently assault women in Whakatane town centre.
A media appeal was initiated after two women were indecently assaulted in the town centre on the afternoon of March 16 in Boon Street and Canning Place.
This week, Police received a report of a further indecent assault at approximately 3pm on Monday, April 6 in Commerce Street.
All three victims of these assaults have described an offender with a distinctive stretcher ear piercing. He is believed to be European, 14 to 16 years old with solid build and brown hair.
On one occasion he was wearing a cone stretch earring and more recently a pink and black stretch earring.