Police are hunting an alleged sex attacker with dirty, yellow teeth who assaulted a teenage girl in a toilet.

The girl, 16, from Benfleet, told police she was in the toilet at the car park in Pooles Lane, Hullbridge, when a man approached her.

She claims she was sexually assaulted when he reached out and touched her inappropriately, inside the toilet block.

Police refused to say where on her body he touched the teenager.

It is not believed the youngster was raped.

The man was described as white, aged in his late thirties, about 5ft 7ins tall, with messy dark hair which was heavily receding.

He had yellow teeth with gaps, a big round nose, bushy eyebrows and grey stubble. He wore a gold, hooped earring and rode a red Saracen mountain bike.

Anyone with information on the sex assault, which took place at 8pm on Monday, January 15, should contact Det Sgt Jim Sandford on 01268 775533.