Police profiler spends thre hours on 'monster' case

Detective Inspector Trevor Bowles, head of Rother CID, travelled to Bramshill police college last Wednesday to try and gain an insight into the thinking of the man who grabbed the girl round the throat as she played in unmade Woodsgate Avenue on Sunday, May 18.

The man had pulled the little girl off her feet by the time her friend's screams forced him to flee.

A week later, police stopped nearly 400 passing motorists at the junction with London Road asking if they had seen anything suspicious on the night of the attack.

Observer posters proclaiming Find the Monster are displayed throughout the town

D.I. Bowles said this week: "It was interesting. But the profiler has a problem in that, of course, there is such a small amount of information about the behaviour of the offender. It was over so quickly.

"It does not give us a great deal to go on.

"But we did have a three-hour meeting with him and we went through a lot of material."

Detective Inspector Bowles is hoping that BBC Crimewatch will visit the scene and feature the attempted abduction in its Thursday, June 26 programme.