{"id":931375,"date":"2026-10-17T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931375\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:02:12","slug":"police-release-image-of-e-bike-rider-they-say-can-help-with-sexual-touching-probe-at-narrabeen-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931375\/","title":{"rendered":"Police release image of e-bike rider they say can help with ‘sexual touching’ probe at Narrabeen Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have increased patrols on walking trails surrounding a lagoon in Sydney’s northern beaches after multiple women reported being “sexually touched” allegedly by a man on an e-bike.<\/p>\n

The incidents, which number six to date, took place between October 1 and October 12 in broad daylight while the women were walking or running at Narabeen Lagoon and in the surrounding bushland.<\/p>\n

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The incidents took place between October 1 and October 12 in broad daylight. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

In an update on Saturday afternoon, Superintendent John Duncan said it was alarming that women were being harassed.<\/p>\n

“We take these matters very, very seriously,” he said.<\/p>\n

“In consultation with State Crime Command and the Sex Crime Squad, we’ve got a number of overt and covert activities.<\/p>\n

“We have a number of our uniformed and plain-clothed officers in the area.”<\/p>\n

Most of the alleged offending occurred between 4pm and 6pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In some cases several incidents occurred on one day, which according to police “tends to suggest it’s probably someone who is local and someone nearby”.<\/p>\n

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Police say the man is believed to be aged under 25 years and of Caucasian appearance. (Supplied: NSW Police)<\/p>\n

Earlier, police released an image of a man they would like to speak to.<\/p>\n

He is riding an e-bike and is described as “being of Caucasian appearance, believed to be aged under 25 years, about 175cm tall and of medium build”.<\/p>\n

Police believe just one person is involved, but are “keeping their options open”.<\/p>\n

“I’d imagine that person, or their families or friends, will actually know who that is,” Superintendent Duncan said.<\/p>\n

“And we encourage them to come forward and help with our investigations.”<\/p>\n

‘Rode away on an e-bike’<\/p>\n

The first reported incidents happened on October 7 and October 8.<\/p>\n

“In each incident, a male allegedly approached women on walking trails, sexually touched them and then rode away on an e-bike,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“In one of the incidents, the man also made inappropriate sexual comments.”<\/p>\n

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The first incidents reported to police took place on walking trails near the lagoon. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

After a public appeal for information on October 12, police received an additional three reports \u2014 one dating back to the first of that month.<\/p>\n

The woman alleged she was approached by a man near South Creek Road at Wheeler Heights about 4.30pm and allegedly sexually touched before he rode away on an e-bike.<\/p>\n

On October 12, in two separate incidents between 5pm and 5:30pm, two women reported being sexually touched by a male riding an e-bike.<\/p>\n

There have been no reports since then, Superintendent Duncan said, but he feared there may be more cases.<\/p>\n

“We do believe that there are probably more victims out there that may have some information or may have been a victim of this particular crime,” he said.<\/p>\n

“And we’d like them to come forward and contact either Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or Dee Why Police Station.”<\/p>\n

Anyone with dashcam footage is also urged to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have increased patrols on walking trails surrounding a lagoon in Sydney’s northern beaches after multiple women reported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,497935,497934,497932,44,4277,163650,74098,497933],"class_list":["post-931375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-e-bike-rider","tag-narrabeen-lagoon","tag-narrabeen-walking-tracks","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-sexual-offences","tag-sexual-touching","tag-superintendent-john-duncan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}