A 40-year-old man is due in court this morning after being charged with attempted child abduction.

Mihai Lacatusu, of Asquith Road, Rose Hill, Oxford, has been charged following an alleged incident involving a nine-year-old girl on Wednesday.

He has been charged with one count of attempting to take a child from a person having lawful control of him or her.

Lacatusu was in police custody overnight and will appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court this morning.