Attacks on pensioners spanned a 17-year campaign of terror
A former London minicab driver, dubbed the “Night Stalker” rapist, was convicted on Thursday of "sickening and depraved" attacks on pensioners during a 17-year campaign of terror.
Delroy Grant was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of 29 counts of preying on 18 elderly men and women.
Police fear the 53-year-old may have attacked as many as 500 vulnerable people in what detectives described as one of the most “awful and disturbing crimes” ever investigated by Scotland Yard.
Between 1992 and 2009 the masked sexual predator preyed on frail men and women in south London and violated them in their homes, sometimes for several hours.
Many of his victims — aged up to 89 — were blind, deaf or had conditions including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Judge Peter Rook described his 17-year campaign as “sickening and depraved”, while Jonathan Laidlaw, prosecuting the series of attacks, said this “really is the stuff of nightmares”.
The Jehovah’s Witness went to great lengths to avoid capture as a nationwide manhunt to catch him gathered pace, the court has heard. After his arrest in 2009, the jury heard, he even tried to frame his own son.
'Night Stalker' rapist guilty of sick attacks
Attacks on pensioners spanned a 17-year campaign of terror
A former London minicab driver, dubbed the “Night Stalker” rapist, was convicted on Thursday of "sickening and depraved" attacks on pensioners during a 17-year campaign of terror.
Delroy Grant was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of 29 counts of preying on 18 elderly men and women.
Police fear the 53-year-old may have attacked as many as 500 vulnerable people in what detectives described as one of the most “awful and disturbing crimes” ever investigated by Scotland Yard.
Between 1992 and 2009 the masked sexual predator preyed on frail men and women in south London and violated them in their homes, sometimes for several hours.
Many of his victims — aged up to 89 — were blind, deaf or had conditions including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Judge Peter Rook described his 17-year campaign as “sickening and depraved”, while Jonathan Laidlaw, prosecuting the series of attacks, said this “really is the stuff of nightmares”.
The Jehovah’s Witness went to great lengths to avoid capture as a nationwide manhunt to catch him gathered pace, the court has heard. After his arrest in 2009, the jury heard, he even tried to frame his own son.
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