A convicted murderer has received a second life jail term for the knifepoint kidnap in broad daylight of a 15-year-old girl who he went on to sexually assault.

Paul Sharpe, 56, bundled his teenage victim into a car in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, on 18 May.

Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard Sharpe - jailed in 2001 for murdering an ex-partner - had been to the area months before and had recorded voice memos detailing his planned "abduction point".

Sharpe, from Portswood, Stockport, was ordered to serve a minimum of eight years in jail before he can be considered for release by the Parole Board.

The court heard the teenager was kept captive in Sharpe's car for eight and a half hours before she was rescued by police the following day.

In fear that she was going to be raped and murdered, she showed "an astonishing presence of mind" to tear out strands of hair to provide DNA proof she had been in the vehicle, the court was told.

Sharpe, who strangled his former partner in 2000, had been released on licence from prison in 2013, for which he had been given a life sentence with a minimum term of 11 years.

Months before the abduction, which took place in the early evening on 18 May, Sharpe used his mobile phone to record acts of apparent reconnaissance while he drove, said prosecutor Alaric Bassano.

In one such recording, a male voice declared "the abduction point would be here", the court heard, while Sharpe went on to search on his phone for locations of secondary schools.

Sharpe initially sought to "fob off" his teenage victim with a fictitious story that he had been asked to take her as her father owed someone money.

He asked her lots of questions about herself in an apparent attempt to calm her down, said Bassano, and she obliged "in the hope that by giving herself a personality the defendant would be less likely to harm her".

Bassano said: "It was impressive reasoning for a young person in her circumstances but an early indication of the fear which she harboured."

Sharpe bound her wrists and ankles with neck ties as he drove to various secluded car parks.

He made numerous attempts to force her to drink a "yellowy liquid" which she, at times, pretended to consume, the court was told.

Bassano said: "During her imprisonment (the victim) feared that she was going to die, a fear which prompted her to deliberately deposit her DNA in the car to assist police in any subsequent murder investigation."

Police were first alerted when a dog walker reported hearing a young female crying in a church car park in Knutsford and an older male stating "take a drink".

The vehicle had gone by the time officers arrived but was later traced to a hotel car park in Knutsford, where the teenager emerged "visibly shaken" and "shocked", and Sharpe was arrested.

He told detectives he had not planned the kidnap and was "overwhelmed because he had no electricity at home", was on the verge of receiving a driving ban and had resigned his job.

He added he wanted to talk to a stranger before he killed himself.

Sharpe pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to various offences including kidnap, kidnap with intent to commit a sexual offence and sexual assault.

Sentencing, Judge Savill told him: "The facts of this case are chilling. To describe [the victim's] experience at your hands as an appalling ordeal would be wholly inadequate."

He said Sharpe "cruised the streets in your car with the clear purpose of finding a female school child to abduct in order to fulfil your particular sexual fantasies".

Judge Savill praised the courage and bravery shown by the victim.

"Faced with such dreadful circumstances she showed astonishing presence of mind as she deliberately left traces of DNA in your car," he said.

"Simply put, the reason she did this was because she thought she was going to be raped and murdered by you".

In her victim personal statement, the teenager said she suffers from panic, anxiety, sleeplessness and nightmares following "the worst eight hours of my life".