Deportation of rapist upheld

A British man convicted of torturing and raping a young woman in a case which drew parallels with the film The Silence of the Lambs has lost his fight against deportation from Australia.

Leslie Neil Cunliffe was released from jail on parole in April after serving some 12 years for his crimes but Australian authorities subsequently cancelled his visa.

Cunliffe posed as a policeman in 1999 and abducted a 21-year-old woman at gunpoint, locking her in a backyard shed with padded walls.