A semi-professional footballer has been jailed for life for raping and murdering a girl he met on a night out while high on drugs.

Joseph Trevor, 19, from Stoke-on-Trent stabbed 18-year-old Megan Newton nine times at her flat in Fletcher Road on April 20 last year.

Stafford Crown Court heard Megan invited Trevor back to her flat "as an act of kindness" before he raped and murdered her.

The court heard that Trevor, who played for Newcastle Town FC, told a psychiatrist he had previously been accused of rape but was never prosecuted.

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