Manhunt after sixteen-year-old boy is ‘raped in a wigwam’ at an Edinburgh four-star caravan park

Manhunt after sixteen-year-old boy is ‘raped in a wigwam’ at an Edinburgh four-star caravan park

  • The teen, 16, said he had been raped by an older man in a wigwam in Edinburgh 
  • Attack took place at Mortonhall Caravan Park on Tuesday
  • Detectives have appealed for anyone with information to come forward following the attack at the holiday park

Police are searching for a rapist who attacked a sixteen-year-old boy at a caravan park in Edinburgh.

The teenager said he had been raped by an older man in a wigwam at Mortonhall Caravan Park on Tuesday.

Detectives have appealed for anyone with information to come forward following the attack at the holiday park. 

Wigwam accommodation at Mortonhall Caravan Park where a boy was allegedly raped

Mortonhall Caravan Park where a teenager said he had been raped by an older man in a wigwam on Tuesday

Mortonhall Caravan Park where a teenager said he had been raped by an older man in a wigwam on Tuesday

A Police Scotland spokesman said: ‘Police in Edinburgh are investigating a report of a serious sexual assault of a teenage male in the Mortonhall Caravan Park area on July 23.

‘Enquiries are ongoing and officers are following a positive line of enquiry in connection with this.’  

The four-star park is popular with families visiting Edinburgh, being just four miles from the city centre.

The four-star park has various accommodation and is popular with families visiting Edinburgh

The four-star park has various accommodation and is popular with families visiting Edinburgh

The entrance to popular Mortonhall Caravan Park, where the attack took place

The entrance to popular Mortonhall Caravan Park, where the attack took place

 

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