A 12-year-old girl gave evidence yesterday via a video link to the Royal Court of an alleged indecent assault.

LOCAL man Filipe Nelson Burton was remanded in custody when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with two counts of rape and one of attempted rape.

AN 18-YEAR-OLD local man has been charged with two counts of rape and one of attempted rape following police investigations into sexual assaults in Town.

POLICE have defended withholding news for a month that a possible serial sex attacker has been at large in Guernsey.

PERSONAL attack alarms were handed out to women in Town last night.

THE police presence in Town will be stepped up this weekend after a woman was seriously sexually assaulted by a stranger.

THE rarity of serious sexual attacks in Guernsey means that, thankfully, they retain the power to shock. The day when the island takes such crimes for granted will hopefully never arrive.

POLICE are warning women to be on their guard, following a serious sexual assault at the weekend.

YOUNG women were shocked to hear of the sex attack in St Peter Port early on Saturday morning.

A YOUNG mother has told of how her physical abuse by a paedophile tore her family apart.