Poster appeal over sex attacker

The posters are being put up at shops, pubs, post offices and railway stations

Posters and leaflets are being distributed across a Cumbrian town in an attempt to catch a man who sexually assaulted a teenage girl.

The 16-year-old was attacked as she was walking along Mossbay Road in Workington on Thursday night.

She was dragged behind bushes and subjected to a serious sexual assault.

The posters show a computer generated image of the offender, who had a partially shaved eyebrow and was about 22 years old and 6ft tall.

The attacker was wearing a dark blue baseball cap, dark Nike hooded top, dark trousers with stripes down the outside of each leg and black trainers with white laces.

He also had bruising to one of his thumbs and a dot tattoo under the knuckle of a finger on his right hand.

More than 1,000 fliers are also being handed out to local residents to encourage more witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.

Det Supt Cath Thundercloud, of Cumbria Police, said: "This was a serious sexual assault on a young girl and it is vitally important that anyone with information which could help us comes forward.

"Someone out there knows who this man is and if they do I am urging them to contact us."