Update – Attempted rape, Noosa Heads

Police have launched an appeal to locate the driver of a vehicle captured on CCTV in the vicinity of where a woman was allegedly assaulted in Noosa Heads on April 18.

It will be alleged a 34-year-old local woman was walking down a thoroughfare between Noosa Parade and Hastings Street around 5.20am, when a man not known to her exited a vehicle and approached.

The man then tried to engage verbally with the woman before allegedly grabbing her and attempting to push her to the ground.

The woman managed to struggle free and fled to a nearby business where police were immediately contacted.

The man then left the scene in a vehicle.

Ongoing investigations by detectives led to the arrest yesterday of a 22-year-old Sunshine Beach man who was…