July 2011

Wythenshawe sex beast and murderer jailed for life for second time

A convicted murderer has been jailed for life for the SECOND time after being found guilty of sex crimes spanning four decades.

Evil David Richard Taylor, 66, raped 11 victims before and after going to jail for killing a man. Taylor has now been jailed for life again by a judge who labelled the sex offender one of the worst he had ever seen. Manchester Crown Court heard that his ‘chilling’ and ‘degrading’ crimes – which targeted girls, boys and a woman – spanned from 1970 to 2008.

He has shown no remorse for the 28 rapes and sex assaults – which he continues to deny – and glared defiantly around the courtroom before being led down to the cells.

Shortly before Christmas in 1986, Taylor mowed down and killed Andrew Williams after driving at a group of people outside a nightclub in Morecambe following a row over a cigarette. By that time – unknown to the police – the killer had already committed a string of sex attacks on girls as young as five.

Taylor, of Meerwood Avenue, Sharston, Wythenshawe, was jailed for life for the murder of Mr Williams and emerged from prison after 12 years in 1999. Despite being on licence for the rest of his life – which meant he could be recalled to prison at any time – Taylor raped a boy within months of his release.

He went on to attack two more boys and molest two girls. Manchester Crown Court heard that the ‘trail of misery’ he left in his wake was unearthed by a painstaking investigation, sparked by his first victim, now an adult, coming forward. He was recalled to prison in 2009 to serve out the rest of his murder sentence.

The new life sentence, which runs alongside it, means he cannot apply for parole for 12 years, but he is likely to stay in jail far beyond that period. Sending him down, Judge Martin Rudland, said Taylor’s original life sentence had not deterred him from re-offending ‘one jot’. The judge told him: “You accept not one iota of the evidence against you, which was as moving as it was overwhelming.

This is one of the most serious cases of its kind. “The protection of the public must be paramount. I’m quite satisfied that the circumstances of this demand the imposition of a life sentence and that no other form of sentence will be appropriate for the protection of the public.”

The detective who brought Taylor to justice, Dc Emma Wilkinson, was praised for her dedication by the judge. He said: “She has to be commended for having taken that first step from that first complainant to this point – the imposition of life imprisonment for the second time upon a most horrific predatory sex offender, one of the worst I have ever seen in all my experience.” Taylor’s first victim was interviewed by police in April last year.

She told a detective: “I didn’t know what was going on. I didn’t know it was wrong.” The woman said Taylor told her the abuse would be their ‘special secret’, and threatened that if she told anyone her mother would ‘batter’ her and her father would go to prison. The victim finally escaped his clutches after thwarting an attack by ‘screaming the place down’.

She said: “It got to the point I thought ‘no more, I can’t take any of this any more’, and he let go of me, after that it never happened again. Whether or not he was worried that because I’d screamed out at last, that I’d say something, it never happened again.”