Detectives have released an e-fit of the man they believe kidnapped and raped a 21-year-old woman with learning difficulties.
Officers from Essex are working with colleagues in Kent in a joint operation after the woman revealed details of her horrific ordeal to detectives.
She had been collecting money for a cancer charity outside M25 Moto service station in Thurrock after travelling there from her home in Shoebury.
The man approached her and spoke to her for almost two hours before convincing her to get into his red, four-door car. He then drove her to the Breckland Lodge motel in Attleborough, on the A11 in Norfolk.
He raped the woman in the hotel room and kept her captive overnight before abandoning her the following day. By this time the woman's relatives had reported her disappearance to police and she was being treated as a missing person.
Her attacker was described as white, between 30 and 40 years, stocky heavy build, 6ft, with very close cropped dark hair.
He had a dirty bandage around his left wrist and palm and a tattoo on his right forearm. He also wore black faded jeans, old army boots, a white T-shirt and black sleeveless jacket.
Published Monday, June 9, 2003
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