Rayleigh: 13 Year-Old Girl Reports Rape

20 January 2014, 06:15 | Updated: 20 January 2014, 06:39

Police in Rayleigh have launched a major investigation after a teenager reported being raped by five men.

The attack happened three years ago, when the girl was just 13, but officers say she has been too frightened to report it until now. 

She was walking home along an alleyway between Bardfield Way and Langham Drive at around 9.30pm on February 24, 2011 when she was grabbed by the men. 

She was then taken to a nearby field where she was attacked. 

Investigating officer, Dc Danny Cooper, said: "This was a terrifying assault by five men on a girl who was aged 13 at the time. She was traumatised and remained scared of the men until she found the courage to tell her mother what had happened. 

"We want to hear from anyone in the area of the Birds Estate who has any information about this incident or from anyone who can identify the man in the Efit who was the main perpetrator. 

"He is described as being white, between 5ft 8 to 9in tall, with thick dark-coloured eyebrows and pronounced jawline and cheek bones. At the time he had spikey gelled hair." 

Police have released an efit of the main perpetrator. 

Anyone with information should contact Dc Cooper at Rayleigh SOIT office on 101 or email him at danny.cooper@essex.pnn.police.uk.