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'Night Stalker' rape trial opens in London
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March 4, 2011, Friday
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A FORMER London minicab driver went on trial yesterday, accused of being the "Night Stalker" rapist who preyed on elderly victims during a 17-year campaign of attacks.
Delroy Grant, 53, burgled and sexually assaulted vulnerable women and men in their 80s for a gratification it was "impossible to understand," a jury at London's Woolwich Crown Court was told.
"The defendant was targeting the elderly and vulnerable in their homes and during the night," said prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw. "That is why he was to become known as the Night Stalker."
Grant is charged with 29 offenses committed between October 1992 and November 2009 on pensioners across south London, the Press Association reported.
"What it was that motivated him to carry out sexual offenses on the very elderly and what sort of gratification he could possibly have achieved is obviously difficult, if not impossible, to understand," Laidlaw said.
"Neither was his sexual interest only confined to women, although it was single women living on their own which he was focused on."
Two of the offenses involved elderly men, who were said to have suffered "humiliating and degrading attacks."
"Those who were too frightened to resist or protest were attacked," the prosecutor told the jury..
"Where he experienced resistance and where his elderly victims refused to be compliant, they tended to be left alone."
The 53-year-old denies carrying out the attacks.
Grant, who was arrested after his car was stopped by police in November 2009, went to great lengths to avoid identification, removing light bulbs in the bedrooms of his victims and cutting telephone lines to buy himself time to escape, the court heard.
Delroy Grant, 53, burgled and sexually assaulted vulnerable women and men in their 80s for a gratification it was "impossible to understand," a jury at London's Woolwich Crown Court was told.
"The defendant was targeting the elderly and vulnerable in their homes and during the night," said prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw. "That is why he was to become known as the Night Stalker."
Grant is charged with 29 offenses committed between October 1992 and November 2009 on pensioners across south London, the Press Association reported.
"What it was that motivated him to carry out sexual offenses on the very elderly and what sort of gratification he could possibly have achieved is obviously difficult, if not impossible, to understand," Laidlaw said.
"Neither was his sexual interest only confined to women, although it was single women living on their own which he was focused on."
Two of the offenses involved elderly men, who were said to have suffered "humiliating and degrading attacks."
"Those who were too frightened to resist or protest were attacked," the prosecutor told the jury..
"Where he experienced resistance and where his elderly victims refused to be compliant, they tended to be left alone."
The 53-year-old denies carrying out the attacks.
Grant, who was arrested after his car was stopped by police in November 2009, went to great lengths to avoid identification, removing light bulbs in the bedrooms of his victims and cutting telephone lines to buy himself time to escape, the court heard.
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