A police spokesman said: “On Tuesday, May 10, police received a report that two teenage girls had been sexually assaulted in Leazes Park in Newcastle. The force did not publicise the case, because it said that such a move could have frustrated the inquiry, even though it is unusual not to reveal that suspects have appeared in court. An investigation was carried Four arrests were made within 48 hours of the report of the sexual assault in Leazes Park in Newcastle Richard Heathcote/Getty ImagesNorthumbria police have defended a decision not to publicise allegations that two 14-year-old girls were sexually assaulted in a park by four Syrians, one of whom had come to Britain under the government scheme to resettle vulnerable refugees.

Source: The Times June 12, 2016 23:08 UTC