A MAN who is accused of repeatedly breaching a sexual offences prevention order is to face trial by judge and jury, being remanded in custody until then.

Stephen Charles, 53, is also accused of a series of other offences including trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence and sexual assault.

Charles, who denies all of the matters, was entering his pleas to 11 charges at Swindon Crown Court.

It is alleged he entered a house in Trowbridge in June or July last year, and carried out a sex attack on a woman during the same period of time.

He is further charged with breaching the order, imposed by magistrates in April 2009, by approaching four different unaccompanied females in public.

And he is also accused of stalking two of the women by following them as well as loitering outside the place of work of one of them.

Charles, of Shearman Street, Trowbridge, is said to have committed the string of offences between September 2012 and January 1 this year.

He pleaded not guilty to trespass with intent to commit a sex act, sexual assault, seven counts of breaching a sexual offences prevention order and two of stalking.

Judge Peter Blair QC adjourned the case to Friday, February 13, and remanded him in custody until then.