{"id":4981,"date":"2011-03-28T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:50:21","slug":"uk-rapist-who-preyed-on-elderly-gets-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4981","title":{"rendered":"UK Rapist Who Preyed On Elderly Gets 27 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; A British judge sentenced a notorious serial rapist to at least 27 years in prison Friday for a spate of attacks on elderly people that lasted almost two decades.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Delroy Grant<\/strong> &#8212; dubbed the &#8220;Night Stalker&#8221; &#8212; was convicted of attacks on 18 elderly men and women between 1992 and 2009 following a lengthy investigation. Police say the number of <strong>Grant&#8217;s<\/strong> victims is thought to be substantially more than that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge Peter Rook<\/strong> said he considered giving <strong>Grant<\/strong> a life sentence &#8212; meaning he could never be released &#8212; and noted the crimes were so serious they were not covered by normal sentencing guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your offending is in a league of its own,&#8221; he said at Woolwich Crown Court after hearing statements from <strong>Grant&#8217;s<\/strong> victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker broke into homes, cut phone lines and crept into the bedrooms of his elderly victims during ordeals that lasted for hours. The victims were mostly elderly women; many were blind, deaf or had diseases such as Alzheimer&#8217;s or Parkinson&#8217;s. Some said the masked man woke them up by shining a flashlight in their faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; A British judge sentenced a notorious serial rapist to at least 27 years in prison Friday for a spate of attacks on elderly people that lasted almost two decades. Delroy Grant &#8212; dubbed the &#8220;Night Stalker&#8221; &#8212; was convicted of attacks on 18 elderly men and women between 1992 and 2009 following a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}