Man jailed for life after rape at knifepoint

Monday, 27 March 2017 07:00

A man who broke into a woman’s home and raped her at knifepoint has been jailed for life.

Neil Anthony Thompson of Oswald Road, Chorlton was sentenced on Thursday the 23^rd of March 2017, at Minshull Street Crown Court to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of eight years.

He previously pleaded guilty to rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence and burglary.

On the 12^th of November 2016, a 22-year-old woman had just returned to her home in Old Trafford when she heard a noise.

Believing the noise was just a car outside, the woman, who was home alone, thought nothing of it and continued what she was doing when suddenly there was a loud bang and her bedroom door swung open.

Thompson stormed in carrying a knife, and immediately began demanding that the woman hand over all of her cash and told her to take off her clothes.

Fearing for her life, the woman did as Thompson had ordered before he proceeded to rape her.

After suffering at the hands of Thompson for around half an hour, the woman was able to escape and run to a neighbour’s house and ask for help.

Detective Sergeant Rebecca Mills, of GMP’s Trafford borough said: “This was an absolutely horrific and completely random rape of a young woman in her own home by a man she had never seen or spoken to before. I would also like to thank her and pay tribute to her for this bravery, and I just hope the significant sentence passed will bring her some comfort to know that her help has taken a dangerous man off the streets and seen justice served.”

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