Rape victim's daughter starts petition to keep attacker in jail

THE daughter of a victim of notorious serial rapist Andrew Barlow says her mother still has nightmares three decades on - and has panic alarms around her house - after he broke in and attacked her. She has launched a petition to keep the monster behind bars.

- By NEAL KEELING

The woman revealed her mother only found out Barlow - formerly Andrew Longmire - is due for release this month after reading a M.E.N. story.

Barlow, once branded Britain's most wanted man, has already spent time out of prison as he prepares for release. He was given multiple life sentences in October 1988 after being convicted of 11 rapes; three attempted rapes; indecent assault; and using a firearm to resist arrest.

His tariff was fixed at 20 years. In the decades that followed, Barlow was linked to more offending, as two previously unsolved cases were cracked. The mother of the woman who has set up the petition was attacked in her own home in a town in Greater Manchester in 1987.

The scars left by her ordeal have lasted a lifetime.