Rapist caught 25 years later after his arrest for family row

A “BRUTAL” bus stop rapist was brought to justice 25 years later when he was arrested after a row with his son.

Christopher Scott, 65, repeatedly punched a 17-year-old girl and tried to kidnap her from a dark street in Nottingham in September 1992 but fled when her screams alerted neighbours.

A month later, Scott abducted an 18-year-old student from a bus stop at knifepoint before bundling her into the back of his Skoda, tying her wrists and blindfolding her. He drove her to a country park where he raped her twice.

Despite extensive media coverage of the attack, including a Crimewatch reconstruction, the former security guard appeared to have evaded justice.

But his DNA was added to the database of unsolved crimes and when Scott was arrested following a domestic row with his son in June 2016, his sample threw up a billion-to-one match.

When he was arrested at his home in Heathfield, Nottingham, he exposed himself to two female police officers by opening the robe he was wearing.

He admitted rape, kidnap and robbery last May and was remanded in custody to await sentencing. The victim of the earlier attack spotted a newspaper report of his guilty plea, along with a photograph, and immediately recognised him as her attacker.

She contacted the police and Scott was rearrested in prison. He denied that attack but was found guilty by a jury following a three-day trial at Nottingham Crown Court last month.

Scott was yesterday jailed for 20 years.