Rapist boxer doused victim in petrol
‘ANIMAL’ JAILED FOR SICK ATTACKS
A FORMER professional boxer raped a woman and later doused her in petrol and threatened to set her on fire.
After sexually attacking his victim, Lyndon Newman, 31, launched a terrifying campaign of stalking and intimidation, bombarding her with threatening messages.
Detectives said she can now ‘breathe easily’ knowing that ‘this animal’ Newman is behind bars.
The former super welterweight – who was known in the ring as Lyndon ‘Lights Out’ Newman – has been jailed for 15 years.
He denied rape and stalking but was found guilty after a two-week trial at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court.
Newman, a charity fundraiser who is now unemployed, of Blackberry Lane, Brinnington, Stockport, was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life and given an indefinite restraining order against the victim.
The court heard how in 2017 Newman forced himself on a woman. Over the following months, he intimidated her with threatening messages over the phone, in texts and on social media.
On one occasion when she was visiting her friend’s flat, Newman turned up outside the property and started pouring the contents of a petrol can over the victim’s car.
When she came out to confront him, he doused her in petrol too and threatened to set her on fire. She managed to placate Newman before he could take things any further.
GMP’s Det Con Louise Isherwood said: “Not only did Newman subject his victim to a terrifying ordeal when he raped her but he then continued to make her life a misery as he led a campaign of intimidation against her. “Dangerous people like Lyndon Newman deserve to be locked up and it brings me great satisfaction to be able to say that his victim can now breathe easily as he spends the next 15 years in prison. She has shown an incredible amount of courage in coming forward to police despite the threats of this animal and I want to pay tribute to her for that. “Her bravery has led to a devious predator being taken off the streets and put behind bars where he is unable to hurt any other women.” Newman’s professional career began in 2010, stopped in 2013 but started again in 2016.
Her bravery has led to a devious predator being taken off the streets Det Con Louise Isherwood