Night Stalker

After 20 years of burgling, sexually assaulting and raping elderly women, and some men, the so-called Night Stalker has been caught in Brockley, SE London. Though I cannot identify the street in the picture, there are a lot of railway lines and stations in the area , and the fencing and bushes on the right look like they are beside a street-level railway line less than a mile away from my house. The attacker used to cut telephone lines, disable fuseboxes, and use tools from the garden shed to break into his victims' houses.

Delroy Grant is 52, married with children, and a devout Jehovah's Witness. (Probably how he found some of his victims, I can't help thinking. A couple of them knocked at my door today, as they do far too often, and if one had been him, the many elderly people in my street who answered would no doubt have been put on his list.) He attacked up to 150 people in his 20-year reign of terror.

Well done our wonderful police for taking only 17 years in an operation designed to track the attacker. The 3 years you took to work out that this was a serial offender seem positively swift by comparison.

Cynical? Moi? Surely not.