A COURT has adjourned the case against a man accused of attempting to rape a woman in a late-night stranger attack in a city street.

Gareth Lee Rousen, aged 25, from Coleridge Gardens in Machen, Caerphilly, Mid-Glamorgan in Wales, did not appear before Exeter Magistrates' Court this week and the case was adjourned.

He is charged with attempted rape and a public order offence. The allegation of attempted rape relates to an incident on Tuesday, August 10, when a woman is alleged to have been sexually assaulted in Ebrington Road at around 10pm. The public order offence is alleged to have happened on July 29.

The case was adjourned until September 9, when it will be sent to Exeter Crown Court.

Rousen will appear via video link from custody.