A TERRIFIED woman bit a man on the neck to break free as he tried to drag her into his van.

The woman, who has not been named, was forced to take the desperate action as she feared the mystery man was trying to abduct her.

Today police in Walkden issued an urgent appeal for information about the attacker.

Det Insp Ray Towey of Swinton police said: "We need to immediately speak to anyone who saw this man."

The horrifying drama began when the man stopped near the Ellesmere Shopping Centre on Worsley Road North in a white van. He shouted to the woman on the opposite side of the road and then did a U-turn and pulled up directly alongside her.

He opened the passenger door, asked for directions and the woman leant inside the van.

The man then grabbed her by the hair and suggested he could take her to a "nice quiet lane up the road". With his free hand he tried to shut the van door.

The woman struggled and screamed and then sank her teeth into his neck and drew blood. The man was forced to let go and the shocked woman ran off towards Memorial Road.

The white two door van was described as very clean. The man was in his late 30s, dark skinned but not coloured, with black hair going grey and a bald patch on top of his head.

He had stubble, dark bushy eye-brows, a drawn sharp looking face and bags under his eyes.

He spoke "like Jasper Carrot" and may have had false teeth.

He was wearing a green sweatshirt with tartan collar. The woman, in her 30s, was badly shaken.

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