Police investigate attack on girl in cemetery

Police in Northern Ireland are investigating an alleged indecent assault on a 16-year-old girl in a Co Derry cemetery last night…

Police in Northern Ireland are investigating an alleged indecent assault on a 16-year-old girl in a Co Derry cemetery last night.

The incident is reported to have occurred at at a church graveyard in the village of Macosquin, near Coleraine at midnight.

The teenager claims she was grabbed from behind during the assault. However, her phone rang and her attacker, a man in his thirties, left the scene in a Vauxhall Corsa car.

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