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Thursday, 28 November, 2002, 08:29 GMT
Police hunt sex attacker
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Police have described the attacks as "extremely unusual"
Police are hunting a sex attacker who struck four times in the space of just six hours.

The man carried out the attacks on Tuesday evening in Chester.

A teenage girl was indecently assaulted at about 1620 GMT in an alleyway near to The Narrows, in Hoole.

Shortly after 1900 GMT a 19-year-old woman was assaulted by the same man in Upper Cambrian Road.

'Extremely unusual'

A 26-year-old woman was then accosted by the man on Cambrian Road about half an hour later.

The final attack was carried out on a 30-year-old woman who was walking her dog on Phillip Street at 2120 GMT.

Police are hunting an unshaven man, aged between 20 and 40.

A spokesman described the incidents as "extremely unusual" and urged women to be extra vigilant.


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