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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/rapes-suspect-tried-to-frame-son.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-rapes-suspect-tried-to-frame-son.jpg" alt="Cab driver Delroy Grant denies sexually assaulting pensioners"/></a></p>
<p>The taxi driver accused of being the &#8220;Night Stalker&#8221; rapist questioned why police were bothering to take his fingerprints, telling an officer: &#8220;I always wear gloves&#8221;, a court has heard.</p>
<p>Delroy Grant, 53, also tried to frame his own son when he was arrested on suspicion of preying on vulnerable elderly women and men for 17 years, a jury was told.</p>
<p>His fingerprints were never found at the scenes of a series of burglaries &#8211; many accompanied by sexual assaults &#8211; he allegedly carried out across south London, Woolwich Crown Court heard.</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;.&#8221;</p>
<p>Police found a black woollen glove near the home of an 84-year-old widow in Bromley, Kent, allegedly burgled by Grant in September 2004, the prosecutor said. The glove contained a mixture of DNA from both the minicab driver and a woman called Barbara Stocks with whom he was having a relationship, the court heard.</p>
<p>Grant allegedly attempted to pin the blame for the burglaries and &#8220;humiliating and degrading sexual assaults&#8221; on his son while he was being held by police, the court heard. When an officer came to his cell to give him some deodorant, Grant appeared agitated and allegedly said: &#8220;I do not want to fit anyone up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked what he meant, the court heard he told the officer &#8220;Have you thought about my son? Delroy Junior&#8221; and &#8220;He lives in the right area and he is the same height as me&#8221;.</p>
<p>Grant was 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, the court heard. For an unknown reason he had abandoned his attempt to break into the elderly woman&#8217;s house, the jury was told.</p>
<p>Asked why he was out that night, Grant claimed he had been trying to buy cannabis. 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 sexual predator known as the &#8220;Night Stalker&#8221;, the court heard.</p>
<p>Grant, of Brockley Mews, Honor Oak, south-east London, denies 29 charges relating to burglaries, attempted burglaries, rapes and indecent assaults against 18 pensioners between October 1992 and November 2009. The trial was adjourned until Monday.</p>
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