A man has been charged following a series of alleged sexual assaults across Melbourne’s inner suburbs over the past 18 months.

The 58-year-old Airport West man is accused of picking up three female victims on three separate occasions in January 2021, June 2022 and September 2022 from outside licensed venues and an entertainment precinct in Melbourne CBD and Richmond.

It is alleged the man posed as a rideshare driver to get the victims to enter his vehicle before he drove away and sexually assaulted them in the vehicle.

Detectives from Box Hill Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Taskforce (SOCIT) executed a search warrant at an Airport West address on Monday (Sep. 19) arresting the man.

He has since been charged with rape, attempted rape; and multiple counts of sexual assault and sexual act directed towards another.

The man has been remanded to face Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on December 16.