"I thought I was just going to bite down as hard as I can," Adele Barber told ITV

Woman Bit Off Would-Be Rapist's Tongue So She Had DNA Evidence Against Him

Thanks to one British woman’s quick thinking, a rapist is now off the streets.

Last January, 29-year-old Adele Barber was walking home from her doctor’s office when a man attacked her in an alleyway, forcing himself on her.

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“He tried to kiss me and forced his tongue into my mouth,” she told ITV’s This Morning on Monday of the assault.

So she did the only thing she could: She bit him. Hard.

“I thought, right, this left him vulnerable,” Barber said. “I was just going to bite down as hard as I can, it will show it’s not consensual in any way, shape or form, get as much DNA as I can and try and cause enough pain to get this guy off me.”

She succeeded. Her bite took off the tip of his tongue and Barber was able to make her escape – with her assailant’s tongue still in her mouth.

Barber called the police immediately, who advised her to save the damning evidence in a sterile pot. Using the DNA from the tongue, they were able to convict the man, identified as Ferdinand Manila, on three sexual assaults shortly after.