A serial rapist, who was once known as "Britain's most wanted man", is to be released from jail in the new year.
Despite getting 13 life sentences for his crimes, Andrew Barlow, formerly Andrew Longmire, has already spent some time out of prison, as he prepared for his official release in January 2023. He was sentenced in October 1988 after being convicted of 11 rapes, three attempted rapes, indecent assault, and using a firearm to resist arrest.
Throughout the 1980s, he raped multiple women in five different counties. The first was between 1981 and 1984 and the second between August 1987 and his arrest in January 1988, when he opened fire with a shotgun as two police officers detained him.
