Rape victim dragged into woods and choked with rope while told she deserved to die WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT Connor Fearon, 25, who had previously slashed another woman s bedding with a knife, had fantasised about strangling a woman during sex, he told a psychiatrist
Connor Fearon has been jailed for ten years at Preston Crown Court (Image: SWNS)
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Man jailed after dragging woman into woods, strangling and the raping her A man who raped and tried to strangle a woman has been jailed at Preston Crown Court today. Connor Fearon lured the vulnerable woman to a deserted bridleway in Caterall in the early hours of the morning of December 19 last year. Fearon then launched a sustained and violent physical attack on the woman, 21, during which he told her that she deserved to die. Fearon produced a rope and put it around the woman’s neck strangling her before raping her. Neighbours heard the woman’s screams and called police who rushed to the area to find her severely traumatised.
Man jailed after dragging woman into woods, strangling and the raping her A man who raped and tried to strangle a woman has been jailed at Preston Crown Court today. Connor Fearon lured the vulnerable woman to a deserted bridleway in Caterall in the early hours of the morning of December 19 last year. Fearon then launched a sustained and violent physical attack on the woman, 21, during which he told her that she deserved to die. Fearon produced a rope and put it around the woman’s neck strangling her before raping her. Neighbours heard the woman’s screams and called police who rushed to the area to find her severely traumatised.
Connor Fearon (pictured) has been jailed for 10 years.
Neighbours heard the woman s screams and called police who rushed to the area to find her severely traumatised.
Fearon had made off but was subsequently identified and arrested.
A length of rope was recovered at the scene along with yellow cable ties.
A search was carried out at Fearon s address and similar rope and cable ties were recovered from a shed at his home address.
Fearon launched a sustained and violent physical attack . This must have been an absolutely terrifying and traumatic experience for the victim and I can only dread to think what may have happened had her screams not been heard, Det Sgt Mark Nelson added.