Police corner Corfu ‘rapist’
Police on Corfu yesterday were questioning a 37-year-old vagrant believed to be behind the rape of three British tourists on the Ionian island this summer, after cornering him in a large expanse of woodland near the southern town of Lefkimi. The suspect, a former convict who has served time for rape and was released from jail earlier this summer, had been hiding in the woods near Lefkimi where the rapes are alleged to have occurred over the past six weeks, police said. The alleged victims claimed to have been attacked by the 37-year-old in the nearby resort of Kavos, which is very popular with British tourists, and to have been subsequently taken by car to the wooded area where they were sexually assaulted. Police officers and sniffer dogs arrested the suspect on Wednesday night after surrounding the woods near Lefkimi. The 37-year-old emerged from the trees after a few hours.
