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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/attack-accused-always-wore-gloves.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Cab driver Delroy Grant denies sexually assaulting pensioners" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-attack-accused-always-wore-gloves.jpg" alt="Cab driver Delroy Grant denies sexually assaulting pensioners"/></a></p>
<p>A cab driver arrested on suspicion of being the &#8220;Night Stalker&#8221; told police there was no point taking his fingerprints because he &#8220;always wore gloves&#8221;, a court heard.</p>
<p>Delroy Grant, 53, was held in November 2009 by detectives investigating a sexual predator who preyed on elderly women and men in a 17-year reign of terror.</p>
<p>He is accused of burgling vulnerable pensioners and subjecting many of them to &#8220;humiliating and degrading sexual assaults&#8221; in and around south London between October 1992 and November 2009.</p>
<p>Grant refused to comment on the offences in interviews with detectives but made an apparent admission when he was being booked in at Lewisham Police Station in south-east London, a jury was told.</p>
<p>Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw QC said: &#8220;At the police station the defendant&#8217;s fingerprints were taken. The officer told him, &#8216;I am making sure I get ink all over your hands and get a good print from you&#8217;. To which the defendant replied, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know why you&#8217;re bothering, I always wear gloves&#8217;.</p>
<p>&#8220;That indeed was the position. He was almost always wearing gloves and none of his fingerprints were recovered from any of the scenes of these burglaries.&#8221;</p>
<p>Grant was finally arrested early on November 15 2009 after a police surveillance team watched him running away from the home of a wheelchair-bound 86-year-old widow in Shirley, Croydon, Woolwich Crown Court in London heard.</p>
<p>For an unknown reason he had abandoned his attempt to break into the elderly woman&#8217;s house, the jury was told.</p>
<p>Officers followed his Vauxhall Zafira from the scene and detained him just after midnight. Asked why he was out that night, Grant claimed he had been trying to buy cannabis.</p>
<p>But a search of his pockets and his car revealed a torch, crowbar, blue cagoule, fleece and woolly hat linked to burglaries allegedly carried out by the &#8220;Night Stalker&#8221;, the court heard.</p>
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