Police hunt girl's attacker

Police are desperately hunting a heavily-built man who dragged a teenage girl from a Doncaster street into bushes.

Her ordeal was caught on closed-circuit TV cameras and fortunately she was saved by the swift arrival of the police.

But officers fear the man, in his fifties, could strike again and have released the disturbing camera footage.

The petite 16-year-old was walking to her home in Doncaster when she was approached by the man.

After she tried to shake him off, he marched her into some bushes, threw her over his shoulders and carried her into a car park. But the officers were already on their way and the atttacker fled at the sound of patrol car sirens.

Police told how an offduty officer had seen the girl walking alone early last Friday.

He had phoned colleagues at Doncaster police station and they had picked her up on their cameras covering the Adwick-le-Street area of the South Yorkshire town. 'They had been watching her for a while when this man came up,' said Detective Constable Steve Leach.

The 16-stone man is seen on the footage strolling away after dropping the kicking and screaming girl.

Police, who have released a computer image of the suspect, said he broke into trot when the patrol cars pulled up. Two officers pursued him but he vanished into a residential area.

His victim was said to be 'deeply traumatised' by the incident.