A 35-year-old man faces charges after allegedly assaulting his former partner on Fairbairn Avenue in Majura on Sunday evening.

The woman had got into the man’s Ford Territory to speak with him in a carpark in Dickson at 6pm when he allegedly indecently assaulted her.

Police say he drove off with the woman still in the vehicle and continued to indecently touch and assault her before stopping on Fairbairn Avenue where he allegedly pulled the woman from the vehicle, punching her repeatedly.

Witnesses who saw the assault called the police and waited with the woman until officers arrived.

The man was arrested and charged with two counts of committing an act of indecency without consent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and property damage.