A 29-YEAR-OLD man has appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged with indecently assaulting a woman attending a boxing tournament with her husband.

Faisal Master, of Kirkland Close, Blackburn, is also charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice by attending the woman’s home and offering her husband money and asking for forgiveness.

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Master also faces a second charge of perverting the course of public justice by making contact through Facebook with a female police officer he is accused of indecently assaulting at a garage in Burnley Road, Accrington. That charge is due before Burnley Crown Court on July 25.

The other matters were sent to Preston Crown Court and Masters was remanded on bail to appear there on July 18.