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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Neal Keeling

'This was an animal out to attack me - my lucky escape from Greater Manchester's worst rapist'

It was late afternoon early evening on a summer day in 1986. A carefree teenager was walking through a park with the family dog.

Thirty seven years later what happened next remains vivid in her memory. She believes she may have had a lucky escape from a man who would become known as Greater Manchester's worst rapist.

By that year, Andrew Longmire, who is to be released from prison this month, had already attacked women across the north during a campaign of raping spanning from 1981 to 1984. He would begin a second spree of offending from August 1987 until his arrest in January 1988. Now 66, he has since changed his name to Andrew Barlow.

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