Man to face court on serial rape charges

A man will appear in court today charged with a string of sex attacks.

Delroy Grant, 52, is accused of preying on elderly women in their homes across south London over 17 years.

He will appear in custody at the Old Bailey at 2pm to face charges of rape, indecent assault and burglary.

Grant, a full-time carer for his estranged wife Jennifer, who has multiple sclerosis, was held by police in the early hours of November 15 last year.

He was interviewed by a team of Scotland Yard detectives hunting a criminal dubbed the Night Stalker.

The former minicab driver, of Brockley Mews, Honor Oak, is accused of breaking into his victim's homes before subjecting them to sex attacks.

He is charged with five rapes, six indecent assaults, burglary with intent to rape and 10 burglaries, involving a total of 18 victims.

The alleged offences took place in Warlingham, Shirley, Beckenham, Bromley, Addiscombe, Orpington and West Dulwich between October 1992 and May last year.

The inquiry set up to catch the Night Stalker was named Operation Minstead and opened in 1998.

The attacker broke into the homes of pensioners, often disabling phone and electricity lines, before subjecting them to horrific ordeals.