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British police zero in on southern Caribbean in search for serial rapist of elderly

October 20, 2006

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - London police have narrowed their search to the southern Caribbean for a serial rapist believed to have attacked nearly 100 elderly women and men in Britain, a forensic scientist said yesterday.
British forensic specialist Ray Fysh said scientists who worked on the human genome project used an advanced form of DNA testing to identify the rapist's ancestral blood lines.

"He is probably British," Fysh told The Associated Press. "But it is clear to us that our suspect has ancestry from the southern Caribbean, anywhere from Dominica in the north down to Trinidad in the south."

Fysh was in Trinidad with London police, who have brought their search to the Caribbean. They will travel to Barbados tomorrow to meet with police there and devise strategies for catching the man who has evaded arrest for more than a decade....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

 

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