A MAN is due to face a crown court judge next week in connection with a series of attacks which left one Fylde woman withpart of her tongue bitten off.

Andrew John Humphris, 35, will appear before Preston Crown Court facing separate counts of indecent assault, malicious wounding and dangerous driving on Monday, November 8.

The former Londoner, of Blundell Street, Blackpool, has been charged with indecently assaulting a 35-year-old woman on Rigby Road, South Shore, in the early hours of Friday, October 29.

He has also been charged with the malicious wounding of 26-year-old Carrie-Ann Gill, at 3am in Levens Grove in the resort on the same date at 3am. Ms Gill had two inches of her tongue bitten off.

Unemployed Humphris is also charged with committing a serious motoring offence in a Vauxhall Astra car in Knutsford town centre, Cheshire, at around 5am on October 29.

He was arrested, following a nationwide manhunt, by police in Suffolk after he was spotted sleeping in his car in a field in Ipswich.

His application for bail was refused during an appearance before Blackpool Magistrates on Monday, November 1.

Leading the investigation into the attack, Detective Superintendant Ian Jones, confirmed that Ms Gill had been released from Blackpool Victoria Hospital on Wednesday afternoon

She is now recovering at home as is the other victim.

Detective Superintendant Jones said: "At this time both women are progressing well although, understandably, they are still very traumatised by what happened to them."