Daily Mirror

Internet date pair jailed for horror attack

- BY TONY PALMER

TWO young women beat, throttled and threatened to kill a vulnerable internet date during a 24-hour ordeal, a court heard.

James Liddell, 27, who has learning difficulti­es, was also dunked in a bath and taunted with a drill.

He had begun an online romance with student Tanisha Williams, 20, who lured him to her Battersea flat in South West London.

She was joined in December 2015 by her friend, mum-of-two Paige Springer, 20, from Balham.

They embarked on what Judge Timothy Lamb, QC, called “gratuitous degradatio­n”. Williams claimed anti-depressant tablets “turned her into a zombie”.

The pair admitted ABH and were each jailed for 28 months at Kingston-upon-Thames crown court.

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COURT Springer & Williams

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