This is the eerie moment a depraved monster was caught on CCTV before he carried out a sickening knifepoint rape after breaking into a woman's flat as she slept.
The footage, released by Greater Manchester Police after Courtney Adams, 32, was jailed for 20 years, shows the hooded thug fleeing a burglary.
Seconds earlier, the woman inside the apartment he targeted screamed at him to leave after he slipped in through a window. Adams, from Hulme, told her to 'shut up', before she fled.
He ransacked her bedroom - taking bags, a laptop and bank cards. Cameras then captured Adams jumping over a fence as he left the Great Western Street property, on November 29 last year. Join our FREE Manchester Crime and Court WhatsApp group by clicking here With his hood up, gloves on and with a large plastic bag in his left hand, he climbs over the metal fence before calmly walking away.
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