A Darlington rapist linked to the London Night Stalker by investigators has been released from prison.
John McGlynn was jailed after the 1987 brutal rape of an 88-year-old widow, reports The Mirror.
He was one of two men who had subjected victim “Rose” to a four-hour ordeal.
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The now 69-year-old was also convicted of another serious sexual offence, burglary and false imprisonment.
McGlynn has been linked by a former detective to crimes by the Night Stalker – Delroy Grant – a serial rapist who preyed on elderly between October 1992 and May 2008.
Delroy Grant
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McGlynn was jailed in 2010 following a DNA breakthrough.
His finger and palm marks also matched those left at Rose’s home.
It is understood that McGlynn, was released last year under licence, two-thirds into his 15-year term.
Rose, who died before McGlynn was caught, told police two men had broken into her home in Beckenham, in the heart of the Night Stalker’s hunting ground in South East London.
And former detective Colin Sutton, upon whose career ITV drama Manhunt is based, believes Night Stalker Grant – who he helped catch in 2009 after a 17-year reign of terror – may be the second man.
Rose told police that one attacker was black, shone a torch in her eyes, soothed her and gave her water — as Grant often did with his victims.
Grant and McGlynn were both sexually attracted to elderly women and had once lived in Leicester at the same time.
Mr Sutton, who is played by Martin Clunes in the TV hit, makes his claims about the pair in his book Operation Minstead, which was the basis for the second series of Manhunt screened last month.
In it, he writes: “I think there is a sequence of events that would fit with the evidence and explain the surprising inconsistencies in this shocking case.
“Delroy Grant and John McGlynn knew each other in the mid-1980s and discovered they had a shared attraction to elderly ladies.”
Mr Sutton also said the “striking similarities with Grant’s modus operandi were utterly convincing”.
And he fears the pair could be behind more crimes on top of the 203 already linked to Grant, who is currently serving four life terms for 29 offences.
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