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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Neal Keeling

'Dad left, mum turned to drink, we were torn apart - all because of a serial rapist who must never be set free'

It was 8am and his dad had just left for work. His mum in her pink dressing gown was busy making breakfast. The idyllic domestic scene would be shattered by an intruder whose actions would ultimately tear a family apart.

The man who barged his way into the terraced house in Greater Manchester that morning in 1981 was Andrew Longmire. As he crossed the threshold he began the first of two terrifying campaigns of rape.

That day he not only brutally assaulted a young mother but robbed a little boy of the innocence of childhood. Forty two years later that child cannot forgive Longmire, who has changed his name to Andrew Barlow.

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