A man with a "despicable" attitude towards sex workers strangled and suffocated a woman in a degrading attack at her own home.
Daniel Rutter, 34, had known the woman two weeks when he went to her home in Burnsall Gardens, Leeds, on December 18 last year. He turned violent when the woman "accidentally" knocked over his crack pipe and attacked her relentlessly, through to the following day.
Leeds Crown Court heard on Thursday that Rutter continuously punched the woman but she was able to get away and lose him before returning to her flat. Prosecutor Jade Bucklow said she later let him back in, "fearful" of what he would do if she did not.
