Abduction police follow new leads

It was the third time police had released footage of the man

Detectives hunting a man caught on CCTV cameras trying to abduct a 16-year-old girl in Doncaster are following new leads after an appeal on BBC TV's Crimewatch.

The programme, broadcast on Wednesday evening, produced 120 calls to both the London TV studios and the town's incident room.

The callers were responding after previously unseen footage of the man was broadcast.

South Yorkshire Police say they are now following up "a number of very good leads" given to them by Crimewatch viewers.

Detective Inspector Ray Turnbull who is supervising the Doncaster incident room, said: "We have had a good response to the programme and we have a number of very good leads to follow up.

New names

"A number of new names have come into the inquiry which appear quite interesting and we will be following up these over the coming days."

The original CCTV footage showed the girl being grabbed by a middle aged man before she managed to struggle free.

The suspect is believed to be in his 50s

But despite subsequent appeals police have yet to identify the man that carried out the attack in the town in June.

The incident, which took place on York Road, Adwick, at 0320 BST on Friday, 27 June, was captured by camera operators who were alerted by an off-duty police officer.

The last images released by police showed the suspected attacker walking through Doncaster town centre an hour before his attempted abduction.

Around 170 men were identified as potential suspects from the first images but police are still seeking their man.

Detectives believe he might not be from the local area and hope a wider audience might be able to identify him.

Police have also released an e-fit of the suspect, who is described as 5 ft 10 in tall, aged in his 50s, with a big build and light coloured hair.