Martin Clunes as DCI Sutton (Image: Neil Genower, Buffalo Picture for ITV) He decided to change tactics, setting up a burglary squad and identifying a street in Croydon in which there had been regular attacks. Taking a similar approach to that of the Levi Bellfield case, Sutton knew that DNA evidence was not going to work. He was known to neighbours as a devoted, church-going family man. Targeting only elderly women, the youngest in her 60s and the oldest in her 90s, Grant was eventually linked to over 203 incidents across London, Kent and Surrey.īy day, Grant took care of his sick wife, who was suffering from multiple sclerosis. He would then rape his targets in their beds, waking them with a torch first. Silently breaking into his victims' homes and dressed all in black, Delroy Grant would carry out burglaries, disconnecting the electricity and cutting the phone lines. The detective said on documentary Evil Up Close: The Night Stalker that he 'had been handed a poison chalice.' The elusive 'Night Stalker' rapist Delroy Grant had been active for over a decade when DCI Sutton took the case. The car was found to have been registered to Bellfield and then sold cheaply shortly after the murder.ĭelroy Grant was dubbed the 'Night Stalker' (Image: Met Police) Ignoring the advice of senior officers, DCI Sutton had already made the connection between Amélie's killer and the murder of 19-year-old Marsha McDonnell, whose body had been found in February 2003 after she was attacked with a hammer.ĬCTV footage of the spot where Marsha got off the bus in Hampton before she was attacked showed a Vauxhall Corsa closeby. As a known hater of blonde women, Bellfield fit the police profile. Having visited her in a shaky and unusual state on the night of the incident, and telling her that he had done something 'unforgiveable', Jo Collings suspected that Bellfield was responsible for the murder of Miss Delagrange. With 26,000 white Ford Couriers in the country to eliminate, the team had a lot of work on their hands.ĭeciding to cross-reference the list of van owners with the 129- strong 'ex-girlfriends list' of women who suspected their former partners, police remembered a woman who had come into the station to report her violent ex. Unable to track the van, Sutton painstakingly pieced together evidence, collecting thousands of hours of footage, sifting through over 100 messages from people claiming they knew who the killer was, and even sending officers to stand on local road bridges to look out for similar vans. The 'Bus Stop Killer' caseĪmélie Delagrange was murdered on her way home
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The story of his investigations into Amélie Delagrange's murder and Delroy Grant's reign as 'The Night Stalker' have been dramatised for ITV drama series Manhunt, with Martin Clunes playing him. In his private blog he has described himself as a "retired London murder DCI, exercising his brain by thinking about things - and writing it down". He has also appeared on BBC, ITV and Sky news programmes, commenting on prolific cases such as those of Madeleine McCann and Steven Lawrence. READ MORE: The real DCI Colin Sutton reveals simple thing show bosses got wrong when telling The Night Stalker story Retired and living in Suffolk, the police force veteran now conducts private investigations for large companies and individuals. He successfully led 30 murder investigations as a Detective Chief Inspector for 15 years and for three different police forces.
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DCI Colin Sutton was a senior investigating officer in the Metropolitan Police from 2003 to 2011.Īssigned to two of the most notorious British crime cases, he unrelentingly hunted killer Levi Bellfield, from West Drayton, and serial rapist Delroy Grant, from Brockley, putting both behind bars.
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