A Leicestershire rapist has finally been caught nearly two decades after his attack thanks to a DNA sample. Mahbubur Rahman, a former Loughborough taxi driver, was arrested in 2022 for an unrelated matter, and his DNA was taken. It was later found that it matched a previously unidentified sample collected in 2006.

Rahman, then aged 31, picked up a 19-year-old Loughborough University student on Saturday, October 7, 2006, after he encountered her in the street shortly after 2.15am. He stopped at a cash machine in Greenclose Lane, and then drove the young woman to George Deacon Court car park, in Chestnut Street, where he raped her in the back of his car.

The victim was able to make her way home after the attack, and police were called. A force spokesperson said that officers revi

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