Police release computer generated image of Glenelg Primary attempt abduction suspect

Police have released a computer generated image of the man believed to have attempted to abduct a young girl at a Glenelg Primary School last week.

Police have released a computer generated image of a man accused of attempting to abduct a student at Glenelg Primary School in a bid to locate the suspect.

The image depicts the man as being bald, wearing knee-length light blue coloured shirt, black pants, a disposable face mask and carrying a black beanie, and around 180cm tall.

The terrifying incident happened at the Diagonal Rd campus around 10am on Tuesday, August 9.

A student reported having a man approach her upstairs on the first floor of the main building near the stairway.

The man grabbed a girl by the right wrist, pulled her down the stairs onto the building onto the middle landing.

Police have released a computer generated image of the Glenelg East Primary suspect accused of trying to grab a student. Picture: SA Police

She was able to pull away and he ran down the stairs and disappeared from the view.

Additional detail from the victim said the man had purple nail polish on one of his thumbs, and he was wearing a distinctive ring on his painted thumb which was black but with coloured dots.

He had a black twisted bracelet on a wrist and four earings in one of his ears.

A friend of the victim named Seva, 11, said a man had chased the pupil from near the school’s “toilet stall up some stairs”.

Images of a protective security vehicle outside Glenelg Primary School as Police investigate an attempted child abduction at the school. Picture: Emma Brasier

Seva said: “Everyone in my class is scared. I don’t really feel safe at the school anymore, because I’m afraid it might happen to me.” The Advertiser spoke to Seva with her mother’s permission.

The primary school sent a letter to parents stating police were investigating the incident.

Security was stationed at the school in the days following last week.

Glenelg Primary School where a man allegedly attempted to abduct a student. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Brenton Edwards

Western District detectives spoke to numerous people in the vicinity of the school at the time and doorknocked the area but are yet to find the suspect.

Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.