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Green-eyed rapist

Thursday 23 June 1994 23:02 BST
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Rodney Douglas, 26, a triple rapist, who picked on single women in bedsits, was trapped because he had piercing green eyes. The Old Bailey was told that statistically there would only be about five black people with eyes that colour in the country. Douglas, of Ladywell, south-east London, who had been convicted earlier, was jailed for 15 years.

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