Rapist caught on CCTV boasted 'I'm too good looking for ID parades'

Stuart Thomson tin beryllium seen prowling the streets of Manchester metropolis centre successful caller footage released by constabulary earlier helium launched a "campaign of rape" equipped with a knife

Footage shows a serial rapist who claimed helium was “too bully looking” for an individuality parade prowling the streets for victims.

Stuart Thomson has present been jailed for beingness for a ‘campaign of rape’ committed successful Manchester metropolis centre. The 34-year-old went retired equipped with a weapon and targeted enactment workers connected the streets down Piccadilly station, aft utilizing ace cocaine.

Manchester Crown Court heard that Thomson approached the women and discussed intersexual services for payment, earlier producing a weapon and raping them. He raped 3 women, and attempted to rape a fourth.

He treated the women "like pieces of meat" and "less than human", forcing himself connected them, past putting them done the grief of a proceedings by denying his guilt. The attacks each occurred wrong a 3 hr play connected the nighttime of January 30 past year.

Thompson was tracked down aft leaving a wool chapeau astatine the country and aft being taken to tribunal helium was recovered blameworthy by a assemblage astatine Manchester Crown Court. He was told that helium would beryllium locked up for beingness with a minimum of 18 years connected Friday.

And present footage released by Greater Manchester Police films him showing nary remorse during his apprehension wherever helium said helium was “too bully looking” for an individuality parade.

Judge Hilary Manley told Thomson: “Your contempt for each of them was plainly evident passim the proceedings and peculiarly erstwhile you gave evidence. I americium wholly satisfied that you deliberately targeted enactment workers arsenic your victims, due to the fact that you knew that you could get them isolated and unsocial successful a quiescent determination successful bid to rape them, and besides due to the fact that you were cynically assured that they would beryllium little apt to spell to the police, and that adjacent if they did find the courageousness and spot to bash so, that they would beryllium little apt to beryllium believed.”

Greater Manchester Police said they received a bid of calls from victims of Thomson. It stated: “In the aboriginal hours of the greeting connected Tuesday 31 January 2024, we received a 999 telephone from a unfortunate stating she had been raped astatine weapon constituent connected Mancunian Way, Manchester. As constabulary attended the scene, they were approached by a 2nd victim, who had besides been raped astatine weapon point. Throughout the day, constabulary received 2 much reports of a rape and an attempted rape astatine weapon point, successful the aforesaid location.”

Detectives enactment unneurotic witnesser statements and descriptions of the offender portion they were besides capable to stitchery CCTV footage of him. A breakthrough came with the find of Thomson’s wool hat. GMP said: “Detectives trawled CCTV to physique a representation of his movements successful the pb up to the attacks. On respective occasions, helium was captured connected CCTV wearing distinctive items of clothing, including a hoodie with a grey insert connected the back, a overgarment with greenish lining, a wool hat, and a precocious vis benignant t shirt.

"At the scene, constabulary besides recovered a wool hat, which was mentioned successful 1 of the unfortunate statements, and it was seized for forensics. While astatine archetypal it came backmost matching idiosyncratic who did not lucifer the statement of our offender, constabulary went to the code to behaviour enquiries. The code was a hostel, and upon attendance, constabulary spotted the offender, wearing the distinctive greenish overgarment that had been identified during the CCTV trawls.”

DS Jennifer Savazzi said: “It’s wide that Stuart Thomson is simply a unsafe intersexual predator. He forcibly imposed himself upon these women successful a convulsive and callous mode with nary information for the harm helium was doing to them. I would similar to praise our victims and survivors who person shown bonzer courageousness passim and person done each they tin to assistance the probe and prosecution, it is their courageousness which has got america present today.

"This has been a lengthy and hard process for them, and I americium afloat of admiration for the courageousness and tenacity they person shown. By not accepting responsibility, Thompson has forced them to relive their symptom passim this trial. The harm offenders similar Thomson origin are incalculable, but I anticipation this effect goes immoderate mode successful reassuring our victims, survivors, and members of the nationalist that a unsafe antheral is disconnected our streets, and one invited this condemnation today.”