A lorry driver who "controlled" a schoolgirl he sexually abused by threatening to kill himself has been jailed for eight years.
Suspicions of abuse at the hands of David Rowlinson, 45, were first reported after the parent of another pupil spotted the girl in his Ford Focus near the school and the teenager looked "overly affectionate", Liverpool Echo reports.
Police were informed and watched the girl sit next to Rowlinson, prosecutor Arthur Gibson told Liverpool Crown Court. When officers approached them, the girl said she was "having a few issues" and was “confiding in him and he was trying to help her".
The court heard her mum discovered he had been meeting her for around six months, so sent Rowlinson, of Quarry Close, Runcorn, a message
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