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Horrific photographs show the victim severely bruised and bleeding heavily from the face moments after the assault, which happened after a night out with friends. The woman, who doesn’t want to be named, was also punched and needed treatment in hospital.

The 36-year-old woman had met her attacker on an online chat forum and told police the name of the suspect.

But five weeks later, the force has not taken any action and has today apologised for delays.

The victim met friends for drinks on September 17 and invited a man she had been talking to online in a group chat, Manchester Evening News reports.

But he became violent by the end of the night in Salford, Greater Manchester.

“He had asked me out on a date the Tuesday before. But I cancelled the day before. Then I told him I was going to be at this gathering in Worsley and I said meet us there,” the victim said.

“The evening was fine. I had a few drinks and he had a couple. He had booked a hotel locally but at the end of the night he said he would drive me home and my friends were returning to my house in another car. 

“We left the place and went off walking to his car. He said he couldn’t find it. We must have spent 15 minutes looking for it. I had a bit of a go at him saying ‘how can you not know where you have put your car.’

“He told me to get an Uber. I said ‘no, the least you can do is take me home. What kind of person leaves a girl alone at 2.30am in Salford?”

They eventually found the car, which was near the venue where they had spent the evening.

The victim said they got into the vehicle but after driving only a short distance her date became aggressive and told her to get out of the car.

She continued: “I was on the phone to my friend telling her we were heading back and he was being rude to her. He stopped the car, and was trying to grab hold of my legs. He then grabbed my hair. I came out of the car and said ‘what the f*** do you think you are doing’

“He then punched me a couple of times in the face. He hit me again when I was on the ground. My skin was broken. In my book it was GBH. He then drove off and I was in despair because my phone was still in his car being charged.”

Unbeknown to the victim, the attacker had hurled her phone from his car and a few minutes later she heard it ringing in the road where she had been abandoned.

She managed to call her friend who drove back to rescue her and she took selfies of her injuries at the time she was left – 2.50am on September 18.

She had been left in the driveway of a garden centre in Salford.

The victim, who lives in Cheshire, added: “I’m embarrassed. I should have known better than to jump in a car with a man I don’t know.

“At the end of the day I have made some wrong decisions. But I don’t think I took in the severity of all this at first. It has only recently dawned on me how horrendous this was.”

A week after the attack the victim says the alleged culprit rang her up.

“He asked if I was okay. He said his actions were self defence. I said ‘what, you dragged me out of of the car in the middle of the night’. He claimed he had never laid a finger on anyone. I told him he would be hearing from the police.”

She was later told by a friend that the same man had consequently been on an online streaming room chatting up another woman.

To recover from her ordeal the victim went to her parents home in Yorkshire. She said a few days later she gave a three-hour phone interview to police in Yorkshire.

He stopped the car, and was trying to grab hold of my legs. He then grabbed my hair.

The victim

“I later checked and found out that GMP (Greater Manchester Police) had received that phone interview on September 23. Since then nothing has happened. It was soul destroying. I was prepared to let it go in the end because I was sick and tired of the police not doing anything. I lost all faith in them,” the victim said.

She made a formal complaint to GMP earlier this month.

The victim’s ex husband who looked after her, and stayed with at Salford Royal Hospital and later Stepping Hill Hospital on the night of the attack, said: “She recognises she has made basic mistakes on the night. But this man dragged her out a car and kicked ten bells out of her and left her in the middle of Salford, taunted her afterwards with a phone call, and the next day was again in dating sites talking to other women.

“I am dismayed at the police response. My ex is a lovely wonderful person. She is not aggressive and for this to happen is heartbreaking. She would never provoke anyone. I think the police were negligent and most importantly I want this guy arrested.

“The police called her today and they told her they’re still awaiting for her to make a statement

“She made a statement on the 21st September, on many calls they confirmed they had this statement and now they are saying they don’t.

“If they have lost the statement, why have they not contacted her again for another statement.”

Chief Superintendent Shaun Donnellan, of GMP’s Salford division, said: “Firstly I would like to say that this was an absolutely horrific experience for the victim. She was assaulted after meeting friends on a night out, which is completely unacceptable and not something that anyone should have to be subject to.

“Whilst we originally made attempts to visit the victim in hospital, unfortunately she left prior to police attendance. We have since worked with colleagues in South Yorkshire to make contact with the victim where she was staying with her parents.

“In the process of transferring the crime back to GMP, delays were experienced which we sincerely apologise for.

“I would like to make it clear that we do not take reports of this nature lightly, and a senior officer will be in touch with the victim today.”

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