Burnley Magistrates' Court, where the case was heard as a Crown Court hearing (Image: Archive)
A man is to stand trial after denying he intentionally strangled a woman.
Matthew Loughlin, 30, appeared at Burnley Crown Court charged on seven different counts, which also included threatening a man with a hammer.
The offences are all alleged to have happened on March 23.
Loughlin, of Blucher Street, Colne, pleaded not guilty to damaging property; two counts of threatening someone with an offensive weapon in a private place; common assault; strangulation; and two counts of theft.
Judge Ian Unsworth set a trial date of September 23. It is anticipated the trial will last around three days.
Loughlin was remanded in custody until the trial.
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