DETECTIVES were today investigating the gang rape and sickening sexual abuse of a man in a Laindon graveyard.

The 48-year-old victim told the Echo of his harrowing experience in St. Nicholas' churchyard at the hands of six men on Friday night.

He recalled how four of them held him down while two took it in turns to rape him, one then forced him to perform a lewd act before both rapists urinated on him.

Yesterday <SUN> lunchtime police had cordoned off the 12th century church grounds.

Full story in tomorrow's Echo.