Rapist convicted for 1980s attacks after new DNA test solves crimes

Police matched Eric McKenna ’s DNA to the cold cases after he urinated in neighbour’s pot plantA rapist who attacked two women in the 1980s was caught more than 30 years later through DNA evidence because he urinated in a neighbour ’s plant pot, Northumbria police have revealed.Eric McKenna, 60, was jailed for 23 years after being found guilty of raping women in Gateshead and Newcastle in separate street attacks.Continue reading...
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