The horrific past of murderer who kidnapped girl, 15, and abused her

A kidnapper who tied a girl up in his car and abused her previously killed a mum who he struck up a relationship with, the Manchester Evening News can reveal. Paul Sharpe is awaiting his fate after abducting a 15-year-old girl at knifepoint, forcing her into his car and sexually abusing her. The 56-year-old, from Stockport , has admitted his latest sickening crimes and will be sentenced later this year. But it is not the first the Sharpe has committed an abhorrent crime against a female in Greater Manchester. Back in October 2000, Sharpe murdered a Bolton woman who he was in a relationship with. The pair had struck up a romance after she listened to Sharpe on a radio show he hosted at the time on Tower FM, under his alias Paul Shaw. Click here to hear the latest from Manchester's courts in our newsletter Sharpe fatally strangled the 28-year-old mum, a beauty therapy student at Bolton College, after she threatened to break up with him. He went on the run, but three days later handed himself in, telling officers he had 'flipped' after the relationship appeared to be reaching an end. Sharpe, then of Wellington Road, Bury, was handed a life sentence at Manchester Crown Court the following March. The judge, Mr Justice Penry-Davey, told him: "You deprived her of her life and her son of his mother." A quarter of a century later, Sharpe is again awaiting his fate for a sickening crime against a female. His latest brush with the law involved threatening a 15-year-old girl with a knife, putting her in a headlock and forcing her into his car in Altrincham , at around 7.30pm on May 18 this year. Claiming that her father owed him money, he drove to a Manchester Airport car park and tied up her wrists and ankles with a necktie. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says that over the next few hours, Sharpe drove to different car parks in the surrounding area - forcing her to drink alcohol and sexually assaulting her. Around eight hours after the girl was kidnapped, at 3.40am on May 19, vile Sharpe was finally stopped when police found the pair in his car at a Knutsford hotel car park. The girl had been reported as missing to police by her mother, before CCTV allowed officers to identify Sharpe's car. He was arrested, and during interview said 'he had been feeling bad and so he kidnapped the girl thinking it would be easier than kidnapping an adult', according to the CPS. He also claimed he wasn’t thinking clearly, that his intention was to release her when it was light before taking his own life, and that his motives weren’t sexual but he was 'aroused by smelling her feet', the CPS said. Sharpe, of Yates Street, Portwood, pleaded guilty to kidnapping, committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence, sexual assault, engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, threatening another with a bladed article, and administering a noxious thing with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy, at Minshull Street Crown Court yesterday (July 3). He is due to be sentenced on September 4. Hannah Gee, senior Crown prosecutor for the North West, said: "Paul Sharpe, a convicted murderer, kidnapped an innocent girl at knifepoint in broad daylight. In this terrifying incident, the victim was held captive for eight hours while Sharpe forced her to drink alcohol and sexually assaulted her. "Sharpe gave no thought to the impact his actions, for his own depraved reasons, would have on his victim. Although his guilty pleas today have spared her from the ordeal of a trial, I would like to thank the girl, and her family, for supporting this prosecution and ensuring this dangerous offender is back where he belongs."