A MAN is due to appear in court in connection with an alleged assault at a Christchurch pet store.
The incident was said to have occurred after staff at Pets Corner, Somerford Road, asked an individual to put on a mask.
A member of staff was reportedly verbally abused and then headbutted.
It happened around 3pm on Friday, September 4, last year.
Police later issued CCTV images of a man they wanted to speak to, prompting a 39-year-old man from New Milton to voluntarily attend the police station for interview.
He has now been issued with a postal requisition to appeal before Poole Magistrates' Court on Friday, April 23, for offences of assault by beating and using threatening, abusive or intimidating words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
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