Leanne Gilder was jailed for five years for plying the 14-year-old with crack cocaine before taking her to Manchester’s red light district to sell her for sex
A mum who went on the run after being released from prison where she had been serving time for pimping out a schoolgirl has been caught by police.
Leanne Gilder was jailed for five years for plying the 14-year-old with crack cocaine before taking her to Manchester’s red light district to sell her for sex.
The 29-year-old, formerly of Chadderton, Greater Manchester, was freed last month but allegedly breached the conditions of her licence and failed to notify police of her whereabouts.
Officers have been hunting her since the weekend and tracked her down in Blackpool last night.
She will appear at the town’s magistrates’ court this morning, the Manchester Evening News reports.
Gilder was convicted of child prostitution in May 2012.
Manchester Crown Court heard she plied her young victim with narcotics at an Oldham drug den before taking her into the city centre to tout for business.
Habitual kerb-crawler Michael Booth picked up the women behind Piccadilly station, paying Gilder £60 before molesting the teenager in the back of his transit van.
Gilder treated the victim to a pizza with the cash she made before they got a taxi back to Oldham.
The mum-of-two Gilder protested her innocence to the court – claiming she believed the victim was 18, and that they had been working together as prostitutes after meeting up that night at the Catacombs drop-in centre at Piccadilly.
But the jury rejected her account after the youngster testified that ‘Leanne pimped me out because she got money over me getting raped’.
Gilder was made subject of a sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) for life in addition to her five-year sentence.
Booth, from Padiham, Lancashire, was jailed for six years.
