A young backpacker was raped on Thailand’s notorious Full Moon Party island while looking for her missing purse in the early hours of the morning, police said today.

The 26-year-old blonde woman, from Norway, had been partying on the beach on Koh Phangan before returning to her hostel on Saturday (11/05) night at 11pm.

She went back out with a friend to search unsuccessfully for her missing wallet then returned again at around 3am for a second look, this time alone.

CCTV shows how a Thai man stopped on his motorcycle and offered to help, before she climbed on the back and rode away with him.

However, when he refused to stop she jumped off and was allegedly kicked and punched in the ribs before being raped in an alleyway behind a nearby Big C supermarket. One of her sandals was left at the scene.

The woman immediately complained to police and said she was too drunk to recall the nationality of the man. Officers checked CCTV and found the bike and the owner Rewat Hansuwan, 33, on Monday night.