Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A man has been jailed for 15 years after he kidnapped and raped an underage girl after persuading her to get into his car.
Gerome Kendall, 27, made his victim put her phone on 'ghost mode' and deleted her social media accounts so her concerned family could not contact her.
He also told her that she was his girlfriend and to give a different name, claiming to be 18 if anyone asked her age, Cheshire Crown Court heard.
Kendall convinced the teenager to get into his car on the morning of Saturday 4 July, last year. The court heard he then drove the vehicle to a country road in Macclesfield where he raped the victim twice.
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