This is the man police are trying to trace in connection with the rape of a 17-year-old girl.

Police released the CD-fit and appealed for anyone recognising the man to contact them.

The girl was abducted outside a seafront nightclub in Brighton in the early hours of New Year's Day and bundled into a car.

She was raped several times by one of three men in the vehicle as it travelled towards Eastbourne.

Her ordeal lasted six hours until she was dropped off in Western Road, near Waterloo Street, Hove, at 9am.

She told police the vehicle broke down on the A259 East Dean Road at its junction with the B2103 at Warren Hill, East Dean, near Eastbourne.

It was close to another broken-down vehicle which faced towards Eastbourne.

A tow truck driver helped repair the rapist's vehicle and police are trying to trace the mechanic and the stranded motorist.

They are also anxious to contact people who saw a silver saloon car in Pool Valley, Brighton, with a white girl and three black men in it.

The rapist is black, 5ft 7in, stocky, with a shaven head. He wore a red jumper and a red and white-dotted bandanna.