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At Teesside Crown Court, prosecutor Graham Reeds QC outlined how Chapman had lured Ashleigh to her death.

He had posed as a fictitious good-looking 19-year-old boy called Peter Cartwright on Facebook - even posting fake pictures - to befriend the college student.

After becoming her Facebook friend and chatting on other social networking sites he arranged to meet her on the evening of October 25 last year.

Knowing that Ashleigh was expecting to meet a teenage boy and not a 33-year-old, Chapman led her to believe that Peter Cartwrights father would pick her up.

Peter Chapman's fictitious social-networking profiles