Article: Sick secret of partners in abuse

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 ...

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