15-year-old is raped by armed man

The girl was raped at a filling station then again at a golf centre

Police are looking for a man who raped a 15-year-old girl twice and then called her mother on her mobile phone.

The girl, on holiday from England, was with three teenage boys at Blacks Road, in west Belfast, early on Saturday.

Two young men armed with a metal bar and screwdriver confronted them. One of them dragged the girl to the forecourt of a filling station and raped her.

The teenagers were all ordered into the grounds of Colin Valley Golf Centre, where the same man raped her again.

The men had robbed them of money and mobile phones.

The three boys, aged 14 and 15, had tried to help her but were unable as they were threatened by the man with the metal bar and told to take their shirts off.

Chief Superintendent Ken Henning said the attackers called the girl's mother in England after she was assaulted.

The teenagers were all ordered into the grounds of a golf centre

"When they took her mobile, they obviously got her mother's number and told her what had happened, what they had done," he said.

Police have appealed for anyone with any information about the incident to contact them.

Sinn Fein assembly member Michael Ferguson said it was the second such attack in the general area in a week.

"I would urge local women not to travel home alone and for God's sake to be vigilant," he said.

SDLP assembly member Patricia Lewsley said it was "hard to imagine the kind of ordeal that this young girl endured".

"It was cruel in its planning and evil in its execution. It is clear that this attack was not spontaneous. It is clear that these sick criminals will strike again," she added.