MEGAN’S LAST MOMENTS
Chilling video released as killer caged for life
CHILLING CCTV captured the final moments of Megan Newton’s life as she let her killer into her flat just hours before she was brutally raped and murdered. Video shows the 18-year-old football coach giggling with Joseph Trevor, now 19, before inviting him into her Stoke-on-Trent bedsit. She offered to let Trevor, the son of a former cop, sleep at her flat after he told her he was too drunk and high on drugs to go home to his parents. The harrowing footage shows Trevor following her into her home at 3.45am last April 20, before he raped and strangled Ms Newton and stabbed her nine times.
After the ‘ sustained and violent’ killing, Trevor left her battered, naked body on the bed before letting himself out of her flat two hours later.
He can be seen calmly throwing away her front door key in a car park.
Another CCTV camera captured Trevor walking down the street with blood on his right hand.
Earlier in the evening, the semi-professional footballer had been picked up by police after drinking, as well as taking ketamine and possibly cocaine, Stafford Crown Court heard.
Officers took him to the police station and confiscated a bag of ketamine before releasing him, telling him he would need to return at a later stage.
Raped
Hours later, while at the Kiln nightclub in Newcastleunder-Lyme, Trevor bumped into Ms Newton.
He had been a friend of hers at school and she offered him a place to stay that night.
Prosecutor Adrian Keeling said there had been ‘no sense of offering him anything sexual at all’ when they returned to her flat.
Mr Keeling said: “He raped her vaginally and anally, strangled her and then stabbed her in the back nine times.
“He then left her naked and splayed on the bed.
“On CCTV, his appearance leaving the flat was remarkably composed.”
After the killing, Trevor was found by police sitting on a bridge on the A500. He was taken to hospital.
Trevor (left), formerly of Trentham, Staffordshire, was jailed for life after he pleaded guilty to two counts of rape and one of murder.