A convicted sex offender is due to be sentenced over the abduction and rape of a six-year-old North Tyneside girl who was snatched from her bath.
A man has been sentenced to life in prison for abducting a six-year-old girl from her bath and raping her.
Peter Voisey took the girl from her Willington Quay home last December and repeatedly abused her in his car before dumping her naked in an alleyway.
Peter Voisey snatched the girl from the ground floor bathroom of her home in Willington Quay, North Tyneside.
Voisey, 35, of Blyth, had previously molested a 12-year-old girl in a Cheshire leisure centre in July 2001.
He drove her round the area, repeatedly sexually abused her, then abandoned her naked in an alleyway in December 2005.
He faces a life sentence when he appears at Newcastle Crown Court.
Voisey, 35, who also molested a young girl at a Cheshire leisure centre in 2001, was sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court.
In October he was found guilty of abduction, rape and sexual assault.
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Voisey - also known as Smith - of Renwick Road, was told by Judge David Hodson he would receive a life or indefinite sentence in order to protect the public.
The victim was snatched from her home's ground-floor bathroom
After grabbing the girl from her bath, he put his hand over her mouth and told her that if she made a noise she would not see her family again.
He repeated the threat as he carried out the attacks.
During the three-week trial, the jury heard how Voisey had a previous conviction for molesting a 12-year-old girl in the changing rooms of a leisure centre in Macclesfield, Cheshire, in July 2001.
The court was shown a footprint recovered from the bathroom by forensic science investigators, which matched a pair of trainers he owned.
Police found charred remnants of clothing which he had burnt in his back garden and also recovered his diary in which the entry for December 27 read: "Phew, it's over. Chill now."
The high-profile investigation was one of the most challenging the Northumbria police force had faced in recent years, according to senior officers.
