A judge has told the teenagers who killed Brianna Ghey that they will face a life sentence once they are jailed for her murder.
01.12.2023 - 16:21 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A judge blasted convicted rapist Lawrence Jones as having a 'misogynistic view of women' as she jailed him for 15 years. The 55-year-old founder of Manchester tech company UK Fast attacked two women in the 1990s while he was a piano player in pubs and hotels across the city.
Jones, then in his 20s, called one woman a ‘pr*** tease’ before pouncing on her after he had given her a glass of red wine and another drug which she thought was a spliff. He then told the woman: “So do I have to teach you a lesson (or) are you just gonna let me f*** you.” adding that he could do what he wanted as 'nobody knew she was there'.
Jones, from Hale Barns, went onto rape another woman in his flat after telling her she was ‘gorgeous’ before telling her to sniff from a medicine bottle containing an unknown substance. The woman said she felt ‘helpless’ before Jones climbed on top of her.
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The court heard that at a trial in January, he had also been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room during a business trip in the early 2010s. He ‘prised’ her legs apart, put his hands on her thighs and told her ‘let me see your knickers’, before trying to 'climb onto her'.
He was convicted of two offences of rape last week, and was today jailed for 15 years.
Sentencing him, Judge Sarah Johnston, who presided over both trials, said: "In your 20s you were a successful pianist in the Manchester music scene, described then as confident and sure of yourself. You were showing already a sense of entrepreneurial skill which later developed to, and you were already demonstrating, a proprietorial and misogynistic view of
A judge has told the teenagers who killed Brianna Ghey that they will face a life sentence once they are jailed for her murder.
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