Eerie moment depraved monster is caught on CCTV before sickening knifepoint rape
31.08.2023 - 16:41
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
This is the eerie moment a depraved monster was caught on CCTV before he carried out a sickening knifepoint rape after breaking into a woman's flat as she slept. The footage, released by Greater Manchester Police after Courtney Adams, 32, was jailed for 20 years, shows the hooded thug fleeing a burglary.
Seconds earlier, the woman inside the apartment he targeted screamed at him to leave after he slipped in through a window. Adams, from Hulme, told her to 'shut up', before she fled.
He ransacked her bedroom - taking bags, a laptop and bank cards. Cameras then captured Adams jumping over a fence as he left the Great Western Street property, on November 29 last year.
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With his hood up, gloves on and with a large plastic bag in his left hand, he climbs over the metal fence before calmly walking away.
Manchester Crown Court heard Adams attempted to use the bank cards, but the transactions were declined. He then dumped the receipts over a fence, which were later used by the police to link him to the crime.
He then made his way to Cavendish Place, on Wilmott Street in Manchester city centre, at around 5.30am. Breaking in through the kitchen window of a flat, he searched the room before arming himself with a knife.
Adams then made his way along the communal corridor and walked into the first bedroom he could find, which belonged to a teenage student.
He demanded cash and valuables. The woman gave him £400, but he continued to threaten her, pushing the knife against her face.
Thrusting her against a wall, he got her into a headlock and continued to demand cash, until he spotted a £20 note on the floor. He angrily told her he would 'f*** her', if he