On August 19 of last year, they were both at a coffee morning at the college. It was during one of the courses that she met Goold over a year before. On the first day of the trial being heard at Manchester Crown Court, it was said that Elizabeth, known to family as ‘Lizzie’ was receiving help for mental health issues, and had been attending courses at Health and Wellbeing College in Ashton-under-Lyne. This sexual gratification came to its ultimate satisfaction in murdering her that night in his flat, probably by pulling her own t-shirt very tight around her neck, sustaining such pressure for a considerable period, causing first unconsciousness and then death.” Goold plied her with alcohol before attacking her “The Prosecution say the defendant obtained sexual enjoyment in her humiliation, a pleasure in inflicting injury and pain and provoking her fear. Opening the case for the prosecution, Nick Johnson KC said: “This is a case of a man in his 50s targeting a much younger woman in her 20s who he knew to be vulnerable, plying her with enough alcohol to get her drunk, sexually assaulting her in a taxi when she was quite incapable of consenting, then when back at his flat carrying out further, brutal sexual assaults and rape, leaving her with significant and severe injuries. He will be sentenced tomorrow (February 22). Goold, of Manchester Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, initially denied offences of murder, rape, sexual assault and assault by penetration, but following the first day of his trial, he had now pleaded guilty to all of the offences.
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