Police today arrested a man in connection with two sex attacks on women in Brighton and Hove.

Officers responding to information from the public went to a location in East Brighton at 10.30am and picked up a man.

The 35-year-old was taken in a police car to the John Street station where he was being interviewed by detectives.

Police received more than 40 calls from members of the public after the Argus yesterday published details of a man wanted for questioning.

Brighton police Press officer Carolyn Bond said: "The publicity provided a number of positive inquiries and which we actively followed up."

Detectives yesterday took the unusual step of naming Paul Reynolds as a man they want to eliminate from inquiries into the rape of a 24-year-old woman in Hove on New Year's Day and a sex attack on a 47-year-old woman in Brighton in 1998.

Reynolds, who sometimes wears an eye patch and has a swastika tattoo, has been seen sleeping in a tent at Roedean, the West Pier and near Peter Pan's Playground on Brighton seafront.

Detectives said his DNA had been linked to the two crimes, but police stressed the match was not conclusive.

Reynolds, who has lived on the Moulsecoomb and Whitehawk Estates, is unemployed and lives a transient lifestyle.

He owns a blue or green tent and police asked golf club groundsmen, park rangers, ramblers and dog walkers to be on the look out.

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