'Serial rapist' held; He's quizzed over 16 violent attacks.A MAN suspected of raping at least 16 women is being held by police. Detectives say they can prove through DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. samples that he carried out six attacks in London's Hampstead in 1996. The victims included a student nun, a 15-year-old and a woman aged 66. He is suspected of at least 10 more rapes in London and a series of sex attacks in America. The women were snatched from quiet side streets around midnight, threatened with a knife by the hooded hood·ed adj. 1. Covered with or having a hood. 2. Shaped like a hood, cowl, or similar covering. 3. Zoology a. Having coloration or a crest suggesting a hood. b. attacker and dragged into bushes. Several were robbed. The suspect, in his 30s ,was arrested recently in Tottenham, north London North London is a part of London, England which has several possible definitions. River & geography The part of London north of the River Thames (illustrated). , by a special team of detectives based at Hendon. He is now in custody charged with six rapes, indecent assault indecent assault n. Sexual assualt. indecent assault Noun a sexual attack which does not include rape indecent assault n (BRIT) → and robbery. Detectives plan to question him about a string of unsolved sex crimes. The man was originally targeted by police investigating another matter. Detectives began to suspect he was a sex attacker and DNA comparisons were carried out at a Home Office laboratory. Scotland Yard Scotland Yard, headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police. The term is often used, popularly, to refer to one branch, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Named after a short street in London, the site of a palace used in the 12th cent. are also linking up with the FBI in Virginia to cross match DNA from the suspect against samples from victims in America where he was once arrested as a stalker. One officer said: "All the attacks were violent and terrifying ter·ri·fy tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies 1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten. 2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. assaults on lone women who were ambushed late at night and dragged off the street. "We have discovered that this character lived for a long time in America. "The FBI believe he may have carried out a series of rapes in different places in the US." |
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