Man charged with assault and possessing knife after woman 'seriously assaulted' in Blackpool
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Police were called to reports a woman was being attacked in Lytham Road at around 9.30pm on Friday (May 28).
Officers in the area later arrested a man in connection with the incident.
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Hide AdThomas Brotherton, 21, of Lytham Road, Blackpool, has since been charged with affray, assaulting a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm, using threatening behaviour with intent to cause fear of unlawful violence, two offences of criminal damage, possessing a knife in a public place and threatening a person with a blade in a public place.
He was due to appear at Preston Magistrates' Court yesterday (Monday, May 31).
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