LISTEN ABOVE: Detective Senior Sergeant Kim Libby talks to Larry Williams about the assault of a young woman last weekend. 

The woman, who is now assisting police with their investigation, was found in a timber yard in Riverhead near Auckland early Sunday morning, some 25 kilometres from where she was last seen at the corner of Ponsonby Road and Karangahape Road.

Police are seeking any information from the public, including the identification of a man caught talking to the woman at a Mobil petrol station.

CLICK HERE to watch CCTV footage of the man.