A SUPERMARKET worker last night described fearing for her life after a stranger attacked her at Oxford Railway Station.

Kerry Hastings was left screaming for help after a man punched her twice in the head and once in the back before grabbing hold of her jacket.

As the 20-year-old tried to flee from his grasp her attacker fell to the ground and she ran.

The Sainsbury’s cashier from Didcot was going home on her own after a night out with friends in Oxford city centre when the attack happened.

The man attacked her from behind as she passed him loitering by the bike racks at the station at 3.30am last Saturday.

She said: “I’d never even seen him before. I didn’t approach him, he approached me. When I had my back to him he hit me.

“I just thought ‘am I going to survive?’ “Somehow he was grabbing hold of my jacket as I was trying to escape and he fell over. I was just screaming.

“I was just screaming, there were no words.”

She ran towards a group of men who approached after hearing the commotion. But when they got to the cycle rack the man had already fled.

Ms Hastings said: “If it wasn’t for the three guys running over to me because I was screaming, if no-one was there I thought I wouldn’t be alive.

“I’ve just recovered from five days of back pain and headaches.

“It was a good night out and this had to happen. I feel like Oxford is my home town.

“I felt safe in the city and now I’m afraid to go out alone.”

She added: “Knowing no-one’s been arrested makes me worried he could be out there doing it to someone else.

“I do think ‘why me?’ and if someone saw something then please contact the police.”

The attacker is described as white with a slim build, aged between 30 and 35.

He had dark spiky hair and a moustache. He was wearing dark jeans and a brown jacket.

Pc Anthony Wykes, from British Transport Police, said: “This was a swift and unprovoked attack on a woman who, fortunately, was not seriously injured.

“Luckily there were people around. However, the attack could have been much worse.”

* Anyone with information can call British Transport Police on 0800 40 50 40 quoting reference B5/LNA of 16/02/2012.