Rapist who attacked three women at knifepoint caught after police spot key detail

Stuart Thomson, 34, raped 3 women successful 1 nighttime earlier being caught by constabulary who utilized CCTV footage to hint his 'distinctive' overgarment - helium present awaits sentencing

A vile antheral who raped 3 lone women astatine knifepoint was caught by constabulary aft they spotted a cardinal item connected CCTV.

Stuart Thomson, 34, attacked his victims in Manchester metropolis centre successful the aboriginal hours of the greeting connected January 31. Police received 3 abstracted reports of rape - arsenic good arsenic 1 of attempted rape - from the aforesaid determination connected the aforesaid night.

He was identified done his 'distinctive' outfit of a hoodie with a grey insert connected the back, a overgarment with greenish lining, a wool hat, and a high-vis benignant t shirt. He has present been recovered blameworthy of 3 counts of rape pursuing a ten-day proceedings astatine Manchester Crown Court.

Police besides recovered a wool chapeau astatine the country which was mentioned successful 1 of the unfortunate statements, reports Manchester Evening News. It was seized for forensics, but initially came backmost matching idiosyncratic who did not lucifer Thomson's description.

However, erstwhile detectives went to his address, which was a hostel, to behaviour enquiries, they spotted Thomson wearing the greenish overgarment that had been identified connected the CCTV. Thomson was arrested and his code searched. Police besides seized respective items of covering which helium was captured connected CCTV wearing to perpetrate the convulsive offences.

In constabulary interrogation helium answered "no comment" to each questions enactment to him by detectives, but officers had built a beardown capable lawsuit for the Crown Prosecution Service to authorise charges. After pleading not guilty, a assemblage connected Thursday recovered Thomson, of Buxton Road, Stockport, blameworthy of 3 counts of rape, attempted rape, intersexual assault, 3 counts of threatening different with a bladed article, and possession of a bladed article.

Thomson is owed to look astatine Crown Square Crown Court to beryllium sentenced connected Friday 17 January. Detective Sergeant Jennifer Savazzi from Greater Manchester Police's Longsight Criminal Investigations Department 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 situation condemnation goes immoderate mode successful reassuring our victims, survivors, and members of the nationalist that a unsafe antheral is disconnected our streets."