Detectives today stepped up their hunt for two sex beasts who abducted a teenager as she walked home from a night out in Bradford city centre.

The 19-year-old was dragged into a car and taken on a ten-mile terror ride before being subjected to a serious sexual assault at a secluded beauty spot near Halifax where she was dumped.

Detectives today released an e-fit picture of one of the attackers and further details about the car and route.

The teenager told officers she was dragged into a blue Toyota Carina as she walked near St James's market on Wakefield Road shortly after midnight on Wednesday.

Detective Inspector Jonathan Hoyle, of Halifax CID, who is leading the hunt, said the car had pulled up beside her and a man in the passenger seat tried to speak to her. The vehicle then stopped abruptly and the man dragged the teenager into the back of the car.

"The car sped off towards the roundabout just ahead on the A650 and made a 360-degree turn and headed back towards Bradford," he said. "They then drove through the university area of Bradford and into Lidget Green.

"Unfortunately the man in the back seat was pushing the girl's head down below the seat and she didn't see anything else until she arrived at Ogden in Halifax where the assault took place."

After stealing a Gucci-style purse with some cash in it and a Nokia mobile phone from her, the men ordered her out.

Det Insp Hoyle said: "After they'd gone she plucked up the courage to walk back to the main Keighley Road near the junction with Coal Lane and tried to flag down passing motorists. This was around 2am.

"No-one stopped but she managed to go to some nearby cottages and someone living there rang the police."

The driver is described as Asian male, early 30s, with a medium build, short black, scruffy hair, deep voice and a short stubbly beard. His accomplice was also Asian, with short black hair, brushed forward, in his early 20s, slim build, a deep voice and a gold hoop ear-ring in his right ear and a gold ring on his middle finger of his right hand.

The car smelled strongly of vanilla and had a square gold coloured pendant with Asian writing and a yellow tree air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror.

There was a blue sticker on the glove compartment with Four Seats written on it in black, a stick-on compass on the front windscreen and a grey teddy stuck to the rear windscreen.

Anyone with information should call Halifax CID on (01422) 337085 or (01422) 337077 or Bradford Police on 0845 6060606.

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