US teen raped at knifepoint in North

POLICE in the North made a public appeal yesterday for help in tracking down the rapist of an American student.

The teenager had just stepped outside the Bogside Inn in Derry, where she had been socialising with a group of visiting American female students on Saturday night, when she was held up at knifepoint, forced into a nearby car park and raped.

The girl was left heavily traumatised and with injuries to her face and legs. She is now believed to have returned to the United States.