TEENAGE Bolton prostitute Carly Bateman's "short, wretched life" ended tragically when she was murdered by a client and dumped in undergrowth, a court heard.
Carly turned to prostitution and drugs after running away from home aged just 14, a Manchester Crown Court jury was told.
Three years later her naked "waif-like" body was discovered in an alleyway off Crawford Avenue, Bolton. She had been strangled.
Geoffrey Porter, 40, of Heaton, denies murdering 17-year-old Carly on November 11 last year.
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