Man charged with raping teenager

A 21-year-old man has been charged with raping a teenaged girl outside a nightclub in Co Antrim last weekend.

A 21-year-old man has been charged with raping a teenaged girl outside a nightclub in Co Antrim last weekend.

He is expected to appear in Derry Magistrates Court later today.

The man was arrested yesterday by detectives investigating the attack on the 17-year-old girl, which happened near the nightclub in Toomebridge, Co Antrim, early on Sunday morning.

Bar staff from the Elk Inn found the distressed girl on waste ground close to the nightspot.

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RUC officers interviewed scores of revellers who had been at the nightclub and viewed footage from security cameras before they made the arrest.