A British national has been arrested by police after a man and woman were assaulted following a night out in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains.
Police swooped on a unit in the town of Jindabyne about 9am on Tuesday and arrested the 28-year-old outside the building.
They also executed a search warrant and police said in a statement officers seized items relevant to their investigation into the horrific incident.
A 28-year-old British national has been arrested by police after a man and woman were assaulted following a night out in Jindabyne in the NSW Snowy Mountains
The woman was sexually assaulted and her male friend attacked on their way home from a pub in Jindabyne. They were attacked on Kosciuszko Road opposite Foreshore Park (pictured)
A 25-year-old man was knocked unconscious and his female friend, 22, sexually assaulted by a group of three males last Thursday.
According to police, the friends from Newcastle had spent the night at the Banjo Patterson Inn in Jindabyne before leaving about 1am to return to their hotel.
They were walking along Kosciuszko Road when confronted by three thugs opposite Foreshore Park, who brutally bashed the man, knocking him unconscious, before sexually assaulting his female friend.
The man regained consciousness and tried to help his friend but was assaulted again before he managed to run to the other side of the road and flag down a passing car.
The British man was arrested by police outside a unit in Jindabyne about 9am on Tuesday
The group of three attackers then fled.
The 22-year-old woman was taken to Canberra Hospital and the man was rushed to Cooma Hospital.
The woman is now back home with family in Newcastle and the man has also since been released from hospital.
Police say the pair were not drunk and the attack appears to have been unprovoked.
The man who was assaulted, who suffered facial fractures and two black eyes in the attack, was taken to the scene by police to re-enact the incident on Sunday (pictured) as part of their investigations
Jindabyne, the gateway to the Snowy Mountains, has been teeming with police officers since the pair were assaulted.
Inquiries into the incident are continuing, police said.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
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