To keep up with Trafford news sign up to the MyTrafford newsletter here A man convicted of raping a woman 16 years ago has been jailed for five years and put onto the sex offenders register for life.
Adam Merchant, 35, of Mill Bank, Barrow-in-Furness was found guilty of one count of rape at a trial in September. He was sentenced to five years in prison today at Manchester Crown Court. Read more: £800 of cannabis, three phones and eight sim cards in packages intercepted that were meant for criminals in prison In summer 2005, at the age of 19, Merchant, from Cumbria, was in Manchester visiting family when he raped a 15-year-old girl in Priory Gardens in Sale.
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