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RUSH-HOUR SEX PROWLER SNARED

COMPANY BOSS AND CLUB MANAGER ADMITS ATTACKS INCLUDING ONE ON GIRL AGED JUST EIGHT

- Tristan Kirk Courts Correspond­ent

A WEALTHY businessma­n has been unmasked as a sexual predator known as the Rush Hour Prowler who targeted young women and girls in a year-long campaign of assaults.

Kevin Bond carried out random attacks in daylight on the streets of south-east London, groping his unsuspecti­ng victims before dashing away.

The 51-year-old, who was the manager of the Club 34 nightspot in Croydon and previously ran his own management consultanc­y, sexually assaulted one girl who was just eight years old, Woolwich crown court heard.

As the hunt for the attacker intensifie­d and detectives linked the assaults, he was dubbed the Rush Hour Prowler for his habit of striking between 8am and 10am and in the evening at around 5pm. Bond first struck in October 2016, sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl as she walked along a street in Orpington. Over the next year he preyed

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