Iran hangs ‘Vaseline Man’ rapist
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IRAN hanged a 21-year-old man yesterday after convicting him of the rape of dozens of women in the historic southern city of Shiraz, the judiciary said.
The convict, identified only as Amin D., earned notoriety as the “Vaseline Man” in Iranian media for his greasing of his body in the pre-dawn attacks on women in their homes that sowed terror in the southern city of some 1.5 million people.
“The man was arrested in August 2015 with CCTV footage provided by one of the victims, DNA and blood type match and other evidence left on the scene,” Shiraz prosecutor Ali Salehi told the Mizan Online website.
“He was sentenced to death for corruption on earth and creating widespread insecurity in Shiraz through breaking into the houses of a large number of citizens at night and sexually assaulting and raping women.”
Corruption on earth is the most serious offence under the Islamic legal code in force in Iran and is punishable by death.
Fars province police chief Ahmad Goudarzai said last year the suspect was identified after he left his trousers at the scene of one attack with a dry cleaning tag.
The police then narrowed their search to 15,000 people with the same family name. They used DNA samples to identify and arrest the suspect.
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