AN ASSAULT reported at the weekend ‘didn’t take place in the manner first reported’, police have said.

There were reports of a serious assault in the Boundary Lane area of Carterton on Saturday morning.

After officers investigated the incident, police said they are now not looking for anybody else in connection with this incident.

It was initially reported by police that a man had been seriously assaulted at 5.30am by a white male, believed to be in his thirties, who had then ran off in the direction of Strathmore Close.