Teen turned detective to find ‘missing piece of puzzle’ which saw man jailed for life – Liverpool Echo

Marc Noonan violently raped and sexually abused three girls after befriending them on social media platforms including Snapchat and TikTokMarc Noonan(Image: Merseyside Police)A paedophile’s teenage victim turned detective and found the “missing piece of the puzzle” which saw him jailed for life. Marc Noonan, who was already a previously convicted sex offender, groomed his “young and naïve” victims online via platforms such as TikTok and Snapchat.He then went on to violently rape two of the teenagers and told the third “I don’t care, I’ll do what I want” as she begged him to stop. A judge labelled him “every parent’s worst nightmare” and a “predator lurking online” who would have continued to exploit further victims had he not been caught.A trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard that Noonan had an “overbearing, abusive and violent nature” towards “young, naïve and vulnerable girls”, whom he first contacted via social media before grooming into sexual activity. The 27-year-old, formerly of Fenwick Street in Liverpool city centre, was previously handed a sexual harm prevention order in 2023 after he was found to have downloaded a collection of indecent images of children and extreme pornographic images depicting acts of rape.But Steven Ball, prosecuting, described how
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