A WOMAN has reported being sexually assaulted at a major music festival by a man believed to be from the North-East.

The incident is said to have happened at the Download music festival at Donington Park, in Leicestershire, in the early hours of Sunday, June 11.

The woman had spent Saturday evening with five people, three men and two women, after meeting the group in the main arena.

One of the men offered to walk her back to her tent in the early hours of Sunday morning, between 12.45am and 3.30am.

According to the report, the woman was then sexually assaulted in a grassed area at the top of Car Park C, described by police as the car park on the steepish slope at the site.

Leicestershire Police said: "Having made enquiries at the festival during the course of Sunday, officers are now making public appeals to identify the assailant and the other people he was with.

"The suspect is described as white with quite pale skin, dark eyes, dark swept back hair with a beard described as being like over grown stubble. The woman believes him to be in mid to late 20s and is said to speak with a Newcastle or Middlesbrough accent – described as a Geordie accent.

"At the time of the incident he was wearing what is described as a khaki green/grey cap, dark brown or black shorts with a chequered red tartan shirt with long sleeves with a black T-shirt underneath. He had a ring on one finger and was wearing a wrist band from a previous year."

The suspect was with four friends who are described as:

  • A white woman in her late teens to early 20s; 5ft 8ins tall and very thin. She had ‘bleach blonde’ almost white, hair with very dark roots and a tattoo on her forearm and a second tattoo of a humming bird on the inside of her upper arm. 
  • A white woman, really pale, in her early 20s, 5ft 5ins tall and described as a of ‘chunky’ build. She had very long black wavy hair with a nose ring in her nasal septum, which looked like half a flower. She had a soft Scottish accent.
  • A white male, mid to late 20s and about 5ft 10ins tall. He is described as muscly but slim (athletic build) with no facial hair. He had dark hair and either blue or green eyes. He was wearing light blue jeans, a white T-shirt with a Stone Roses bucket hat which is splattered with colours and has a lemon on the front. He wore a white rosary bead necklace.
  • A white male, early 30s, 5ft 10ins tall, and of slim build. He was clean shaven with blondish shortish hair. He was not wearing a top and had a tattoo on his chest of either a lion or a bear.

If you recognise yourself in any of these descriptions, if you know the identities of any of these individuals or if you saw them during the festival or in the Arena after the main act on Saturday night, please call Leicestershire Police on 101 and quote incident 433 of 11 June 2017.