Inquest to explore the murder of young woman by convicted rapist out on licence
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn inquest is to be held into the death of a 'vulnerable' young woman who was raped and murdered by a convicted sex offender who had been released on licence.
Elizabeth McCann 26, was targeted by Simon Goold, then aged 51 and now 53, after he met her at a college in Tameside. In August last year, he plied her with booze before taking her back to his flat in a taxi, sexually assaulting her en route.
At his flat, he took explicit photos and videos of her and raped her before strangling her to death with her own t-shirt. He rang police to report her death the following morning. READ MORE: She was trying to change her life - but a dangerous rapist hunted her down READ MORE: Today's M.E.N headlines He initially claimed her death was an accident that occurred during consensual sex but pleaded guilty to her murder, rape, sexual assault, and assault by penetration on the second day of his trial at Manchester Crown Court.
He was jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years in February this year. The court heard Goold had already been convicted and jailed after inviting a woman into his flat and stabbing her in the leg before raping and sexually assaulting her, in October 2010.
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