DETECTIVES from the PSNI’s Rape Crime Unit are investigating a serious sexual assault on a teenage girl in north Belfast.

Police say the sex attack happened in the Woodvale Road/Woodvale Park area in the early hours of Saturday morning.

It is believed the attack happened between 12:30 am and 3.30 am in the early hours of this morning, Sunday, November 1

Detective Sergeant Mike Davis said: “I am keen to hear from anyone who was in the area between these times and may have seen a girl with long blonde hair, wearing a white short-sleeved dress and black shoes in the company of a male who was wearing a dark waist length jacket, dark boot cut jeans and a dark baseball cap.”

Any one with information is asked to contact the Rape Crime Unit at Ladas Drive on the 101 non-emergency number.