Night Stalker Arrested

A 52-year-old man called Delroy suspected by investigators of being Britain’s most notorious rapist known as the “Night Stalker”, has been apprehended by police in connection with 200 assaults on the elderly.

According to sources, charges are expected soon and Scotland Yard claimed the arrest was significant.

This represents the biggest manhunt for Metropolitan Police and it involved investigations of burglaries and attacks on elderly people residing mainly in the south London and going as far back as the 1990s.

Delroy is understood to have seven children and has a wife suffering from multiple sclerosis. They lived in Brockley, south east London and he’s believed to have a well paid career.

He is believed to be responsible for a recent string of attacks, which include eight during one September day. Investigators abstained from revealing these assaults because they believed they were close to an arrest.

The suspect was arrested in Shirley, Croydon, on Sunday morning.

Operation Minstead was initiated by Metropolitan Police to investigate assaults in the south London area on elderly people dating back to the 1990s. The Met revealed earlier this month that investigators had more than 2,000 samples of DNA from various suspects.

Operation Minstead consisted of investigations carried out by a team of 29 police officers based at Lewisham Police Station focusing on sex attacks on women and men aged between 68 and 93.

The attack happened in south and south-east London, including Downham, Lee, Croydon, Dulwich, Orpington, Norwood, West Wickham and Bickley.

The Night Stalker had developed a recognisable pattern of behaviour, which involved disconnecting fuse boxes and telephone lines before a break-in. Rape and sexual assaults were sometimes part of his criminal activities.

Victims often described their attacker as a man wearing a mask who would shine a torch in their faces in order to wake them up.

Investigators believed the attacker was of Caribbean background because of a DNA sample was detected on a blue Pierre Cardin scarf discovered in 1999 at a crime scene in Shirley, Croydon.

It is said that he would often take money and would subsequently talk for hours as if trying to befriend his terrified victim. A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed that a 52-year-old man was currently in custody at a London police station.