60-year-old UK man convicted after 33 years for raping 15-year-old

The police obtained Green’s DNA samples from the clothing and swabs taken from the victim that were stored.

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: Almost 33 years after committing the crime, Bristol Crown Court in UK on Thursday convicted a 60-year-old man for binding and raping a 15-year-old girl in a ‘dungeon’.

According to reports, the attacker, David Green, was convicted after police identified him as the culprit through advanced DNA samples and a tattoo on his forearm.

Green assaulted the survivor as she was walking to her workplace along the seafront at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset in the afternoon of July 17, 1983.

After approaching the victim on the pretext of asking for directions, he grabbed her and dragged her to a 'filthy, dank and dark' store building, where he bound her hands and mouth with tape and raped her for over an hour.

Green was not apprehended at that time, but the Somerset police initiated a reinvestigation into several such cases in 2015.

The police obtained Green’s DNA samples from the clothing and swabs taken from the victim that were stored. By matching the samples with the national DNA database, the authorities were able to identify Green, leading to his arrest in February this year.

The police, meanwhile, had also contacted the victim, who recalled that her attacker had a tattoo in his arm that read ‘Dave’.

During the investigation, the police were successfully able to identify the tattoo in Green’s forearm, tightening the case.

He was also discovered to have a string of convictions relating to sexual offences, dating from 1975 to 2002, and was even jailed for nine years after admitting charges of kidnap, sexual assault and false imprisonment.

The court also heard how the victim, throughout her ordeal, was terrified of being killed by Green.

As he was being led away to begin his sentence, Green was seen saying 'I'm sorry'. He was ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years.