'CSI' Fan Catches Rapist

Police in Leeds, England arrested the man who raped an 89-year-old woman by using DNA collected from her fingernails.

The woman was raped twice by Mauro Lopes in March. According to the Yorkshire Evening Post, the woman told the police, "I have been watching CSI so I scratched his face so you could get DNA from my fingernails." The police were able to identify and charge Lopes within two days of the attack. His DNA was in a national database due to a 2005 drunk driving incident.

Lopes had been drinking and had an argument with his girlfriend. He knocked on the victim's door and asked if she called the police before barging into her home. He put a pillow over her face and raped her twice. The victim had to go to the hospital, and the attack prompted her to move out of her home.

The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Peter Collier QC described the crime as "vile in the extreme" and sentenced Lopes to nine years in jail. The man came to England from Angola, Africa in 2002 on a false passport and later gained asylum. After he has served his sentence in the United Kingdom, he will be deported.

The original news is from the Yorkshire Evening Post.

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