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Article: Sick secret of partners in abuse
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- January 12, 2001
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MARIE THERESE KOUAO and Carl Manning were an odd couple - but
they fooled police and social services.
Bus driver Manning, 28, was described in court by his counsel,
Nigel Rumfitt QC, as a "classic nerd".
He wrote extensively about bus routes in his diary and watched
pornography on his computer, and was proud of his tiny bedsit .
Manning, who was brought up in north London by his mother, had
few friends. His only sexual encounter had been with a prostitute.
But within days of meeting Kouao on a bus he was driving, they
had started a sexual relationship, and soon she had moved into his
home.
Manning wrote in his diary: "It is great to be in the arms of one
you love." But things turned ...