A woman sensed someone was following her before she was sexually assaulted.
The woman was walking along the A56 Chester Road in Helsby, outside Ellesmere Port, late on Sunday night when she got the feeling someone was following her. The woman was then grabbed, pulled to the ground and sexually assaulted by a man believed to be in his 40s.
The woman fought off her attacker and fled on foot to a nearby address. The suspect is believed to be white, tall and thin with a bald spot on his head.