A MENTALLY ill sex attacker who pounced twice on the same woman in one night has been detained in hospital.

Burnley Crown Court heard how paranoid schizophrenic Mohsin Khan, 21, told the terrified victim she would have to make a pornographic movie with him. The defendant was later picked out on an identity parade.

Sending Khan back to Stockton Hall Hospital, where he has been a patient, Judge Raymond Bennett said he was satisfied after reading doctors' reports the defendant was "not quite himself" and needed treatment.

Khan, of Napier Street, Nelson, had earlier been convicted of two counts of indecent assault committed last October. He will be detained in a medium secure unit.

John O' Shea, prosecuting, said Khan dragged the woman along a back street as she made her way to the mother's home on Barkerhouse Road, Nelson. She tried to struggle free, began to cry and told him to get off. The woman was then pinned a against a wall and sexually assaulted. She screamed and at that point Khan let go.

The victim continued her journey and at Walverden Park Khan ran up to her, grabbed her and pulled her towards a gap in the railings as she again struggled and shouted. The defendant indecently assaulted her a second time before she managed to break free, ran off and reported the attacks to the poloce.

The court was told the defendant was suffering from delusions and believed his mother and father were not his parents. He thought his mother had been pushed into a river and drowned.