The court heard the girl was left terrified when Taylor later appeared outside her bedroom, waving to her on a daily basis for a fortnight after the attack. 'The only noise (the girl) could hear was the sound of her own sobs,' Mr Wood said. The judge was told how the girl was carried to the churchyard of Christ the King Church in Bramley, Leeds, and tied to a drainpipe in a dark corner before she was repeatedly sexually assaulted. He described how a seven-year-old girl was given a ВЈ5 note to go and buy a loaf of bread by her mother in February 1984, but on her way she encountered Taylor, who subjected her to a two-hour ordeal. Prosecutor Stephen Wood told Leeds Crown Court about the ordeals of five women and girls at the hands of Taylor between 19. One of John Taylor's victims said he is 'devoid of compassion, exudes evil and respects no-one or nothing but his sick gratification'. Prosecuting Stephen Wood said: 'All these offences demonstrate the defendant's longstanding violent and sadistic proclivity towards vulnerable women and female children. 'You sought to maximise the distress you could cause.' 'These were vile and sadistic attacks on women and small children marked by ferocity and callousness. Judge Robin Mairs said: 'This was a 20-year campaign of rape and sexual assault against children and women, fuelled by a sadistic desire to inflict pain for sexual gratification. These decades-old crimes came to light following Operation Quayside, a West Yorkshire Police initiative to capture historic sex offenders.ДЄppearing at Leeds Crown Court via videolink from HM Prison Wakefield, Taylor, now 62, was sentenced to a whole life tariff, meaning there's no possibility of parole. Two of the attacks were carried out at knifepoint and involved Taylor tying his victims up and threatening to kill them. Leanne Tieman (pictured) was grabbed from a woodland path in Bramley then sexually assaulted by Taylor before he killed her at his home

His three counts of rape relate to attacks on women in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

He then forced the child to a secluded location, tied her to a drainpipe and performed a sex act before coldly walking her home and fleeing the area. Taylor, who had a wife and two children, engaged the girl, who had gone out to buy a loaf of bread, by asking her to help him find her lost dog. Yesterday, he was sentenced after admitting 16 other violent and sexual offences against women over four decades prior to Leanne's murder in November 2000 - ensuring he will die behind bars.Д«etween 19 in Leeds, West Yorks, the 'heinous' predator raped three young women and committed a horrific sexual assault on a seven-year-old girl. John Taylor was already serving life for the murder of schoolgirl Leanne Tiernan, 16, who he strangled when he admitted to the sex attacks on other women. John Taylor, who is serving a life sentence for the abduction and murder of 16-year-old Leanne Tiernan in Leeds in 2000ДЄ child killer who 'exudes evil' was sentenced for a string of horrific sex attacks on women and children today - as police fear he may be linked to a further five more deaths.

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