A rapist who attacked two women in the 1980s was caught more than 30 years later through DNA evidence because he urinated in a neighbor’s plant pot.
Eric McKenna, 60, was jailed for 23 years after being found guilty of raping women in Gateshead and Newcastle in separate street attacks.
He selected his victims when they were walking alone and on each occasion he grabbed them from behind and threatened to use a knife.
His crimes went undetected until 2016 when he was arrested following a dispute with a neighbor which led to DNA swabs being taken which eventually matched him to the unsolved attacks.
However, in 2016 Northumbria police neighborhood officers arrested him for urinating in a neighbor’s plant pot following a dispute and he was cautioned for harassment. His DNA was processed and exact matches were made for the two historic rapes. [The Guardian]
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