Hunt for ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ rapist
NZPA London The British police were yesterday investigating the case of the “Jekyll and Hyde” rapist who ruthlessly held a woman and her husband at gunpoint and yet worried about feeding their baby son. The police say he commited “a particularly callous rape” while keeping a Halifax Building Society manager, William Knights, aged 33, and his wife Marion, aged 28, prisoners for two days at the week-end. Then on Monday he forced Mr Knights ' > take him to
the society’s Chingford, Essex, office and hand over £ll,OOO ($25,630) from the safe. The man then made off in the Knights’s car. The gunman who arrived o n Saturday morning removed Mrs Knights’s glasses and kept her husband blindfolded during most of the week-end he held them captive, bound and gagged.
Yet he was concerned about their 12-week-old son Richard, and regularly freed Mrs Knights so she could feed him, an action that leads the police to think he may. be a family man.
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