TRANSPORT police are hunting a man after two women were sexually assaulted two years ago in Manchester.

The attacks occurred on April, 10, 2013, at around 5.50 pm at Piccadilly Station

The first victim, a 24-year-old woman, was on one of the station escalators heading towards the station’s London Road exit.

According to police, she noticed the man standing in front of her kept turning around to look at her. She thought little of it and at the end of the escalator, the man stood aside to let her pass. As he stood behind her on the next escalator, she felt his hands touching her bottom. She tried to move forward, but was hemmed in by other people in front of her.

At the end of the second escalator, the victim left the station and walked out onto London Road. The man deliberately followed her at pace; he caught up with her near Store Street and grabbed her bottom. He then walked off.

The man then made his way back into the station where he was caught on CCTV groping a second unidentified woman on the station platform, before catching the 17:55 train to London. He got off the train at Wilmslow station, where further CCTV cameras record him being picked up in a white BMW X3.

Police describe the man as a white European, aged around 28, approximately 5ft 10, of average build, with short brown hair brushed forwards and with a light brown beard just under his chin. He was wearing square glasses and a knitted dark blue jumper with no hood.

The victim said he was carrying a large A2 picture frame with the Wilkinsons logo on the inlay. This was brand new with a polystyrene cover; the picture was 4 coloured squares: purple, red, yellow, green.

Police are also appealing to the second victim, the woman on the station platform, to come forward – or to other women who suspect they were victims of similar attacks by this man.