A CLUBBER who was attacked twice in 20 minutes today relived his terror and said the assaults had left him frightened to go out.

Gareth Jones, 22, was assaulted in the Opium nightclub, in Willow Street, Accrington, just before midnight on Sunday.

He was attacked again while he was sitting on a wall -- recovering -- in Church Street.

Mr Jones, a commercial debt collector, was taken to Blackburn Royal Infirmary with facial and head injuries.

He was discharged on Wednesday.

Police said the two attacks were probably carried out by the same people, a man and woman.

Speaking at his home in Sherwood Road, Blackburn, Mr Jones said he had an idea who it was, although he couldn't remember much about the assaults.

"All I remember is being in the club and someone coming up and cracking me on the nose. I didn't see them," he said.

"Then I got outside and I was sitting down down with my friend and somebody hit me on the back of the head.

"I ran away, and then I saw a lad in front of me and the next thing I knew I woke up in hospital."

He had gone into town with friends, two days after moving back to Blackburn from Oswaldtwistle.

"I very rarely go into Accrington. It was just because it was a bank holiday and because my mates live there," he said.

"My eyes are just big purple things, and I look like I have food stored in my cheeks like a hamster.

"I'm disappointed more than anything if it is who I think it is, to think that a person can do things while I'm knocked out on the floor and use my head as a football.

"It just makes you not want to go out any more. There is less chance of me going out now after this. You never know whether you are going to see them again. You shouldn't have to worry about trouble on a night out."