IT'S A STRANGE WORLD

Last updated : 28 November 2002 By editor

‘A pervert became a David Beckham look-alike to lure women - then filmed himself indecently assaulting them as they slept. Manchester United fan Leon Rushton followed the football star's hairstyle trends, grew a similar beard and even went out wearing a sarong - a skirt-style wrap once used by the Reds ace. Rushton, 27, used his looks to dazzle girls and was seeing up to four young women at one time. But behind his charm he was living a depraved secret life in which he recorded himself indecently assaulting girlfriends - and even one of their children - as they slept in bed. He also filmed hundreds of children and women near his home in Little Hulton, Salford. He is now facing jail after admitting at Manchester Crown Court eight charges of indecent assault on three women, a 15-year-old-girl and a girl aged five. He also pleaded guilty to 11 charges of taking indecent photographs and one of showing an indecent photo.

When officers raided Rushton's flat, which overlooked a school, they seized 300 films.’