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Delroy Grant
Delroy Easton Grant (born 3 September 1957) is a Jamaican convicted serial rapist who committed a series of burglaries, rapes and sexual assaults between October 1992 and May 2009 in South East London in England.
Grant, also known as the Minstead Rapist and later the Night Stalker, is thought to have been active since 1990. He had a distinctive modus operandi, preying primarily on elderly women who lived alone. He is suspected of over 100 offences from 1990 to 2009.
In 1998, the Metropolitan Police launched Operation Minstead with a dedicated team to investigate the crimes, based at Lewisham police station. By 2005, the operation was the largest and most complex rape investigation ever undertaken by the Metropolitan Police.
On 24 March 2011, Grant was found guilty of 22 offences. The following day he was given four life sentences and ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years in prison.
Operation Minstead was dramatised in the second series of the British television show Manhunt, based on the memoirs of former Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton, first broadcast in 2021.
Grant was an accomplished burglar and had broken into the homes of over 90 women aged between 68 and 93. He was positively linked to four reported rapes and around 30 other sexual assaults. Police believe he was also responsible for at least another two rapes where the victims felt unable to make any official allegation. The true total may be higher as his victims were often too traumatised to speak to police.
In addition, the Operation Minstead investigation team had to decide which incidents were unmistakably the work of the same offender and which were similar but possibly unrelated. Therefore, many possible Minstead incidents flagged up by police for the attention of the Operation Minstead team could not be definitely confirmed as the work of the same offender, and so had to be excluded from the linked series. The confirmed series of offences began in October 1992 in the Shirley area of Croydon. However, because of a break of four years between this first attack and a spate of others, Operation Minstead was not set up until 1998.
Although committing many crimes, Grant was dormant for long periods. After the first attack in October 1992, no further offences were reported until 1997. After a particularly violent rape on 5 August 1999 where his victim almost died from her injuries, there was another long break. This prompted some media speculation that the rapist had been imprisoned for an unrelated offence or that he had died. On 13 October 2002, ten years after the first attack, he struck again. Seven confirmed attacks took place in the summer of 2003. Another break then followed.
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Delroy Grant
Delroy Easton Grant (born 3 September 1957) is a Jamaican convicted serial rapist who committed a series of burglaries, rapes and sexual assaults between October 1992 and May 2009 in South East London in England.
Grant, also known as the Minstead Rapist and later the Night Stalker, is thought to have been active since 1990. He had a distinctive modus operandi, preying primarily on elderly women who lived alone. He is suspected of over 100 offences from 1990 to 2009.
In 1998, the Metropolitan Police launched Operation Minstead with a dedicated team to investigate the crimes, based at Lewisham police station. By 2005, the operation was the largest and most complex rape investigation ever undertaken by the Metropolitan Police.
On 24 March 2011, Grant was found guilty of 22 offences. The following day he was given four life sentences and ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years in prison.
Operation Minstead was dramatised in the second series of the British television show Manhunt, based on the memoirs of former Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton, first broadcast in 2021.
Grant was an accomplished burglar and had broken into the homes of over 90 women aged between 68 and 93. He was positively linked to four reported rapes and around 30 other sexual assaults. Police believe he was also responsible for at least another two rapes where the victims felt unable to make any official allegation. The true total may be higher as his victims were often too traumatised to speak to police.
In addition, the Operation Minstead investigation team had to decide which incidents were unmistakably the work of the same offender and which were similar but possibly unrelated. Therefore, many possible Minstead incidents flagged up by police for the attention of the Operation Minstead team could not be definitely confirmed as the work of the same offender, and so had to be excluded from the linked series. The confirmed series of offences began in October 1992 in the Shirley area of Croydon. However, because of a break of four years between this first attack and a spate of others, Operation Minstead was not set up until 1998.
Although committing many crimes, Grant was dormant for long periods. After the first attack in October 1992, no further offences were reported until 1997. After a particularly violent rape on 5 August 1999 where his victim almost died from her injuries, there was another long break. This prompted some media speculation that the rapist had been imprisoned for an unrelated offence or that he had died. On 13 October 2002, ten years after the first attack, he struck again. Seven confirmed attacks took place in the summer of 2003. Another break then followed.