The story does not discuss the race of the victims. But from the way they speak, they sound like white Britons, not blacks.
Is the title of this entry racist, because it implies that blacks as such are rapists? Of course I do not say that blacks as such are rapists. I have no intention or desire to instill in readers a fear of black people as such. I live in New York City, and I interact with black people comfortably, if superficially, every day. Nevertheless it is a simple fact that sexual crimes and other violent crimes are about an order of magnitude higher among blacks than all other racial groups. And all the liberals in the universe cannot design a social program that will change that. So when a white society mass-imports blacks, as Britain did in the years following World War II, it is subjecting its own population to a future of being raped, robbed, and killed by blacks. And when that society systematically blinds itself to the reality of black violence, of black violence against whites, and of the vastly higher level of black psychopathy (as brought out in Richard Lynn’s studies), and when, most of all, that society punishes people for discussing the reality of black violence, it makes the problem much worse.
It’s very simple. If Britain had not allowed black immigration, tens of thousands of violent criminals, rapists, and murderers would never have existed in Britain, including Delroy Grant. And if Britain would initiate a reverse migration of blacks to their native or ancestral countries, violent crime in Britain would plummet.
Passing sentence, Judge Peter Rook told Grant he remained a ‘very dangerous man capable of committing heinous crimes and causing incalculable harm’ and warned him he could die in jail.
The judge said: ‘You targeted elderly victims living alone. Your actions blighted the remaining precious years of their lives. Their homes, where many of them had lived for years, should have been their safest refuge where they could have expected to live their lives undisturbed and at peace.
‘You chose to invade their homes when they were in their beds at night.
‘It’s hard to imagine the extreme fear that the feel of your gloved hand and the sight of your masked figure looming above them must have been felt by your victims in their beds.’
The judge noted that in all but one case Grant targeted elderly people living alone, suggesting that his attacks involved ‘considerable planning’.
He told him: ‘Your offending spans a period of 17 years. Five London boroughs were affected by your offending.
‘During that period your activities must have terrified a whole community, as your counsel accepted.
‘Thousands of people in south London have been living in fear that they might be your next victim.’
Detectives believe the 53-year-old’s tally of victims could even be as high as 1,000. Many of the elderly men and women on whom he preyed have either died or are too traumatised, ashamed or confused to come forward.
But DCI Sutton—who led a British investigation into the disappearance of Madeline McCann and was involved in the Millie Dowler case—caught Grant within days.
After discovering 100 out of 600 possible break-ins the ‘Night Stalker’ had been linked to were in the same street in Croydon, south London, a giant undercover ‘rat trap’ operation involving 70 officers was set up.
One of the force’s three helicopters was also employed to hover at high altitude overhead, using powerful infra-red cameras to see in the dark.
On their first night of observation, the ‘Night Stalker’ struck three times, twice just to the north of their net and once to the south east, one street away.
‘It’s hard to imagine the extreme fear that the feel of your gloved hand and the sight of your masked figure looming above them must have been felt by your victims in their beds’
Judge Peter Rook, passing sentence
The timing of each burglary meant the suspect must have used a vehicle and travelled down Orchard Avenue.
There was hardly any traffic on the road and investigators identified one vehicle as the one probably used by the Grant.
A CCTV camera from a local business caught a shadowy outline identified by a specialist as a post-2005 model silver-grey Vauxhall Zafira.
Two weeks later, after the suspect had lied low, the car was spotted again and the man that had eluded blundering officers for years was arrested.
The top officer, who is now retired, said yesterday: ‘People say he was a charmer, a nice guy, a regular bloke.
‘There was a lot of surprise when he was arrested. People just wouldn’t have thought that Delroy Grant was the Night Stalker.’
Speaking to the Mirror, DCI Sutton added: ‘I was very proud of the team that we caught him after 17 days but unfortunately we’d been trying for 17 years.’
Yesterday Grant was warned he faced a sentence which could see him die in prison.
A judge warned him the jail term would be ‘very long indeed’ after a jury convicted him of 29 specimen charges by a 10-2 majority.
They rejected the ‘ludicrous’ assertion that his ex-wife planted his DNA at the crime scenes to ‘frame’ him for a wave of attacks which terrorised old people in south London, Kent and Surrey from the early 1990s.
One of the victims—a grey-haired woman he indecently assaulted in her home—stared at him through opera glasses from the back of Woolwich Crown Court as the verdicts were delivered.
Guilty: Delroy Grant
Pervert: Night Stalker Delroy Grant
Depraved: Sick Delroy Grant broke into the homes of elderly people and subjected them to terrifying and vile sexual assaults in a 17-year reign of terror across south London
Grant—who refuses to admit his crimes or offer any explanation—simply shook his head. In a corner of the court, a policewoman sobbed into her hand.
Manhunt: This police appeal picture shows an officer riding a motorcycle virtually identical to the one used by Delroy Grant
Manhunt: This police appeal picture shows an officer riding a motorcycle virtually identical to the one used by Delroy Grant
The massive manhunt dedicated to finding the Night Stalker was riddled with a series of errors, oversights and ‘simple misunderstandings’ which critically undermined it, a formal inquiry concluded yesterday.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said the mistakes and confusion ‘had horrific consequences’. Some of the bungles proved to be catastrophic.
In May 1999 an elderly woman was burgled in Bromley, Kent. A Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator told police she had seen a black man putting on gloves and walking towards the house. She gave details of his car, including the registration number.
Detectives ran a trace on it which showed it was registered to Delroy Easton Grant’s wife Jennifer at their home nearby. When the name ‘Delroy Grant’ was fed to police computer databases, it identified six people of that name.
One Delroy Grant, in London, showed a burglary conviction. For a moment, it looked as if the hunt could be over. But a DNA sample taken from this man, which eliminated him from the inquiry, somehow became assigned to Delroy Easton Grant’s profile.
Mask of respectability: Delroy Grant, back row centre, on his wedding day to second wife Jennifer
Mask of respectability: Delroy Grant, back row centre, on his wedding day to second wife Jennifer
Mask of respectability: Delroy Grant on his wedding day with second wife Jennifer
Evil secrets: Official wedding photo of Grant with second wife Jennifer
Kit: A blue cagoule and black woolly hat were found by police when they searched Grant’s Vauxhall Zafira
Kit: A blue cagoule and black woolly hat were found by police when they searched Grant’s Vauxhall Zafira
Apology: Commander Martin Foy said sorry after the conclusion of the case
Apology: Commander Martin Foy said sorry after the conclusion of the case
Although a detective did visit Delroy and Jennifer Grant’s home to check on his movements on the night of the burglary, Delroy was out—and no follow-up action was taken.
Had his DNA been taken that day, he would have been identified instantly as the Night Stalker rapist.
In 2001, a BBC Crimewatch appeal prompted a call saying an e-fit picture resembled Delroy Grant.
Investigations were carried out—but Delroy Easton Grant was wrongly eliminated by the 1999 DNA blunder.
In 2003, an elderly woman attacked by Grant scratched him in the struggle and got some of his DNA under her fingernails.
She told police her attacker looked like one of the minicab drivers at a local firm she used. In fact Grant did work for that firm—but he was never interviewed.
He was not caught until November 2009 after his car was captured on CCTV near a crime scene in Croydon.
Commander Simon Foy, head of the Metropolitan Police homicide and serious crime command, issued an apology to victims and their families for the ‘missed opportunity’ to catch him, and for ‘the trauma suffered by all those victims and our failure to bring Grant to justice earlier’.
He added: ‘Grant is a rapist who preyed upon the most vulnerable section of society. He has never given any explanation for his offending and we may never know why he did it.’
Brave victims relive their ordeals before packed court as sex fiend is jailed
Victims came face to face with the depraved sex fiend today for the first time since their attacks to relive their terrifying ordeals.
The court heard moving statements today from Grant’s victims and their families about the impact his sick crimes had on them.
One 85-year-old woman, referred to as Miss J for legal reasons, bravely entered the witness box to give evidence about how she continues to suffer from her ordeal nearly nine years ago.
She was 77 when Grant burgled and indecently assaulted her at her bungalow in Shirley, Croydon, in October 2002.
Pervert: A crowbar which he had used to enter a house was also found in the boot of the Zafira
Pervert: A crowbar which he had used to enter a house was also found in the boot of the Zafira
In a statement from 2003 she said: ‘I have found that time is not a great healer. I don’t think it’s got any easier over the last year.
‘I certainly haven’t got back my peace of mind. Nobody can guarantee it won’t happen again.’
She added: ‘It’s something I shall never forget completely. It still feels so recent.’
The judge asked if her experiences at Grant’s hands still affected her today.
Miss J replied: ‘If I go out I like to be home before dark. I do a lot of locking and bolting, and taking precautions … It changed my life.’
She was watched from the dock by Grant, who sat impassively throughout most of the hearing but occasionally shook his head.
The judge paid tribute to Miss J’s ‘courageous’ testimony.
He also quoted from the son of another of the sexual predator’s victims, who said: ‘It has ruined the winter years of my mother’s life, and she has to live with this for the rest of her life.’
‘He could go from charm to monster in a second’, says ex-wife
The ex-wife of Night Stalker Delroy Grant said: ‘He could be charm itself and turn into a monster in a second.’
Janet Watson branded him ‘dangerous’ and scheming and declared: ‘I hope he suffers every day in prison.’
Janet Watson told The Sun she was beaten by Grant following their marriage, declaring ‘being with him was a living hell’.
Charm itself: An artist’s impression of Grant’s ex wife Janet Watson giving evidence in court as he looks on from the dock
Charm itself: An artist’s impression of Grant’s ex wife Janet Watson giving evidence in court as he looks on from the dock
The 53-year-old also laid bare her views of Grant’s defence claim that she ‘fitted him up’ by storing his semen for decades and distributing it at different burglaries.
She said: ‘He is an evil man. I was never going to let him win.
‘There must be something very wrong with him to think he’d get away with saying I did all that just to spite him.’
Referring to the trial at Woolwich Crown Court, she said: ‘I could see people laughing in the public gallery.
‘When I left court, I thought, ‘He’s going to get what he deserves’.’
Grant and Ms Watson tied the knot in 1975. The couple had two sons together, Delroy Junior, 35, and Michael, 32.
Ms Watson said he attacked her in front of the children and beat her when she was pregnant.
She said Michael had to undergo an operation following his birth due to the trauma induced by Grant’s physical attacks. Ms Watson also spoke of his infidelity as Grant cheated on her with other women.
There is much more in the article.
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