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.
He claimed the trigger for the murder was that Megan said she was sorry for telling people he had raped a girl.
Trevor pulled out a knife and stabbed Megan in a ferocious attack, with police finding nine stab wounds to her back.
The teenager, of Danebower Road, Trentham, has been in custody since last year.
Before his trial was due to begin today he pleaded guilty to murder and two charges of rape, StokeonTrentLive reported.
Prosecutor Adrian Keeling QC said: “He raped and murdered Megan in the early hours of Saturday, April 20 last year. He did so at her flat.
“She invited him back there as an act of kindness. During the course of the night, he got so drunk on drink and drugs he could not bear going home to his parents.”
“He took to drink and drugs, ketamine and maybe cocaine,” he said.
Police were called after Trevor was seen to hide a bag of white powder later found to be ketamine down his trousers.
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Megan offered Trevor a place to stay because he didn’t want to go back to his parents and at 3.45am they left in a taxi, arriving at her bedsit flat around 15 minutes later.