SURREY, B.C. - Charges have been laid against a 35-year-old man accused of attacking a woman in Surrey, B.C.

RCMP say Helmer Sinisterra-Mosquera faces one count each of sexual assault, assault causing bodily harm and overcoming resistance by choking.

Police say the Sept. 27 attack occurred in a wooded area and that the injured woman was treated in hospital.

The suspect was described as a tall black man with a wandering or lazy right eye.

Sinisterra-Mosquera was arrested on Oct. 1.

He has been in custody since then.