A woman had her leg repeatedly stroked by a stranger on a bus.

The 48-year-old woman was sexually assaulted on the number 29 Brighton and Hove bus from Lewes to Uckfield on Thursday 23 June.

Having boarded the bus outside Lewes Crown Court at around 5.45pm a man thought to be in his 60s, sat on a folding seat sideways to the woman at the next stop.

The man then tried to talk to the woman while stroking her leg ignoring the victim’s repeated pleas to stop until he got off the bus at Ringmer.

The suspect is described as white, in his mid sixties of proportionate build with long white shoulder length hair and was wearing scruffy work clothes.

Sussex Police say they are not linking the incident to a previous assault on a bus between Seaford and Peacehaven on June 6 and they would like to speak to two women who spoke to the victim after the attack.

Anyone with information should contact Sussex Police on 0845 60 70 999 quoting serial 0487 of 23/06.