Derry 'Good Samaritan' intervenes to protect teenage girls

Police in Derry are keen to talk to a man who intervened to protect two teenage girls who were being assaulted in the city centre at the weekend. . The “good Samaritan" intervened while the girls were being assaulted by an older man and woman as they waited for a taxi close to the City Hotel on Harbour Square in the early hours of Saturday.

Constable Forbes, the investigating officer, said he pushed the assailants away.

A 30-year-old woman and a man aged 32 were arrested and later bailed pending further enquiries.

Const Forbes appealed to anyone who saw the incident to contact the police non-emergency number, 101, or the Crimestoppers Charity anonymously on 0800 555 111.