Potential rape witnesses sought

The girl's attacker was wearing a hooped earring in his left ear

Two potential witnesses are being sought over a sex attack in Surrey.

A teenage girl was raped on a popular route across common land between Ash and Aldershot, in Hampshire, on 21 May.

Police are now trying to trace a person who was driving a tractor or large "ride-on" lawnmower in playing fields in the area on the same day.

They also want to find a girl, who could have been aged about eight, who was seen nearby that afternoon wearing a red and white checked dress.

The 16-year-old victim was raped at about 1600 BST on 21 May.

Foreign national

The incident happened just over the border from Hampshire into Surrey, close to the Ivy Road recreation ground in Aldershot.

The girl was on a pathway from Aldershot to Ash, heading for a footbridge over the A331 Blackwater Valley Route.

Det Insp Fran Breslin said: "It is possible that the people we are trying to trace do not realise they have information that could be vital to the investigation."

The suspect - believed to be a foreign national - is aged in his early 20s, 5ft 6in tall, of slim build, with short dark hair, brown eyes, tanned skin and a distinctive scar on his right cheek.

A sighting of a similar-looking man three days before the attack was previously reported to police.