Stay alert: Police warn after weekend sexual assault

London police have issued a public safety warning after they say a woman was sexually assaulted on June 21.

London police have issued a public safety warning after they say a woman was sexually assaulted over the weekend by a man she doesn’t know.

On Saturday between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m., police said a woman working as a sex worker was approached by a man in a vehicle in the 100-block of Rectory Street near Hamilton Road — the two people engaged in conversation before the woman met and entered the vehicle of the suspect man in a nearby parking lot.

While inside the vehicle, police said the suspect produced what the victim believed to be a handgun and made threats towards the woman before he drove the vehicle to a lot in the 600-block of Trafalgar Street near Landsdown Avenue where he sexually assaulted her.

The victim ram from the car to a nearby house where she contacted a family member to pick her up.

Police said the woman took herself to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries where police were contacted.

The suspect is described as Brown man in his 30s, approximately 5’11”, medium, fit build, clean-shaven with shoulder-length thick black hair.

At the time of the incident, he was described as wearing a t-shirt and black jogging pants.

He was operating a silver or grey four-door sedan.

If you have information, dash-cam footage or video/doorbell surveillance that could assist in the investigation, you’re asked to contact London Police Service.