LONDON (Reuters) – A 33-year-old man was jailed for life on Monday after admitting the kidnap, rape and murder of a teenager he met on the Facebook social networking site.
Convicted sex offender Peter Chapman had cultivated his victim, Ashleigh Hall, 17, by pretending to be a student.
Chapman was told by Judge Peter Fox, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, he would serve a minimum of 35 years in prison, the Press Association reported.
The body of the childcare student was found dumped in a farmer’s field near Sedgefield, Co. Durham, last October.
Hall, from Darlington, had been strangled.
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He was the subject of several sexual assault investigations, beginning when he was 15. In 1996, then 19, he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for raping two prostitutes at knifepoint. He was released in 2001.
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