A rapist has been jailed for 10 years after dragging his victim into the woods and telling her she deserved to die before strangling her with a rope.
Connor Fearon, 25, lured the vulnerable woman to a deserted bridleway in the early hours of the morning of December 19 last year in Catterall, Lancashire.
He then launched a sustained and violent attack on the woman, 21, police said.
The victim was strangled with rope before being rapeed. A length of rope was recovered at the scene along with yellow cable ties
After Fearon s home was searched, similar rope and cable ties recovered from his shed