Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A violent rapist named his victim in a ‘bizarre’, rambling Facebook post in which he suggested it was just as likely SHE had raped him.
Phillip Leece, 32, met the victim when she became lost after leaving a nightclub in Rochdale town centre in March 2019. Posing as a Good Samaritan, Leece lured the woman to a wooded area and violently raped her before running away.
After being identified, arrested and presented with compelling DNA evidence, Leece was charged and bailed. He denied the charge and was preparing to run a trial when he decided to upload a ‘bizarre’ Facebook post in which he named the victim – a criminal offence - blamed her for the
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