Skip to main content

The Crimes

Crime Files

The Crimes

"The next thing I knew was a hand covering my mouth and nose.”

The police were first alerted to Grant’s reign of terror, when in 1992 he broke into a Croydon home. An 89-year-old woman was settling down to sleep when a loud noise woke her. She headed to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee. Once back in bed she suddenly saw Grant standing in her doorway.

He raped her twice, causing horrific injuries; he also stole money, a watch and her jewellery. The ordeal was terrifying, and lasted for hours, but crucially his DNA evidence is left behind.

His next offence occurred cured in 1998. Six years had elapsed and this time he subjected an 81-year-old woman to burglary, indecent assault and attempted rape. Another DNA sample was left at the scene allowing the two crimes to be linked. The hunt was on for a predatory rapist, attacking the elderly.

In 1999 he struck again in Beckenham, Coulsdon, Croydon, Kent and Orpington. He burgled six times, indecently assaulted four times and raped two elderly women. The burglaries and indecent assaults continued from 2002 to 2008. Many of his victims aged between their 70s and 80s, were blind, deaf or suffered from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

In 2009 he broke in to a Polish man’s house in Croydon that he’d robbed before. However, that time the 88 year-old man hadn’t gone to bed yet. Grant’s sadistic side emerged once more and he sexually assaulted him. It’s believed that the assault was carried out to embarrass the man into not calling the police. Sadly this was an effective method of silencing the elderly, as it’s believed Grant had committed over 200 offences.

The police hoped this recent spate of burglaries would end in his capture. The media named him the Night Stalker.