Police in Levin are investigating what they describe as a horrifying sexual assault in the early hours of New Year's day.
Police believe that a 20-year-old woman was dragged into an adventure playground and sexually assaulted, early that morning.
They say her attacker is a male Maori or Pacific Islander, aged 20 to 25-years-old, solidly built but slim with short dark hair and wearing a dark coloured hooded top.
The man is believed to have been walking behind the victim with another man, minutes before the assault.
