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 picture today and appealed for anyone recognising the man.

The girl was abducted outside a seafront night club in Brighton early on 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 before she was finally 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 was black, 5ft 7in tall and stocky with a shaven head.

He wore a red jumper and a red and white-dotted bandanna