A man tricked a teen on a night out into getting in his car then drove her to a flat, locked her in and pinned her to the bed by her throat.
John Stanley targeted the 17-year-old in Liverpool city centre back in 2018. After telling the victim, who the ECHO has chosen not to name, that he needed help getting home, the former taxi driver launched an attack which a judge today said would “send a chill down the spine” of girls and women in the city.
Stanley, now 35, protested his innocence for years but is now behind bars after a jury at Liverpool Crown Court saw through his lies. Arthur Gibson, prosecuting, said the girl was on a night out with a friend at Baa Bar in the early hours of October 3, 2018, when they came across Stanley and another man.
