Sixteen year old girl sexually assaulted in Belfast

Police are investigating a serious sexual assault on a sixteen year old girl in South Belfast. 

It happened on Chichester Street on Friday 23rd of September. 

Details have just been released in a bid to catch the perpetrator. 

Police say the girl was attacked at a bus stop between the junctions of Callender Street and Arthur Street.

She may have been followed onto a bus. 

Constable Conan Magee said: “Sometime between 12:05pm and 12:15pm a 16 year old female was sexually assaulted by an unknown male as she was waiting at a bus stop between the junctions of Callender Street and Arthur Street.

“As the girl boarded the bus it is believed that this male followed her.

“The male is described as being aged in his mid to late 40s with short dark hair that was shaved on the top, black stubble, thin square face with a tanned complexion, approximately 5’7” or 5’8” in height and of medium build. 

"He spoke with a foreign accent and was wearing a burgundy or purple waist length coat.

“Police would like to hear from an elderly male with grey hair and beard, who let the female go ahead of him in the queue in order to get on the bus, and then sat near her as he may have information which would assist our enquiries.