Delroy Easton Grant Junior (born 3 September 1957) is a Jamaican-born British convicted serial rapist who carried out a series of offences of burglary, rape and sexual assault between October 1992 and May 2009 in the South East London area of England. Grant, also known as the Minstead Rapist and latterly the Night Stalker, is thought to have been active since 1990. He had a distinctive modus operandi, preying primarily on elderly women who lived alone. He is suspected of over 100 offences from 1990 to 2009. In 1998, the Metropolitan Police launched the dedicated Operation Minstead team to investigate the crimes, based at Lewisham police station. (The name was chosen from an alphabetical list of English villages, the method of operational naming in use at the time). As of 2009, the operation was the largest and most complex rape investigation ever undertaken by the Metropolitan Police. On 24 March 2011, Grant was found guilty of 22 offences. The following day he was given four life sentences and ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years in prison. Operation Minstead was dramatised over the 2020 second series of the British TV show Manhunt, based on the memoirs of former SIO Colin Sutton. Emergence of a linked series Grant was an accomplished burglar and had broken into the homes of over 90 elderly women aged between 68 and 93. He was positively linked to four reported rapes and around 30 other sexual assaults. Police believe he was also responsible for at least another two rapes where the victims felt unable to make any official allegation. The true total may be higher as his victims were often too traumatised to speak to police. In addition, the Operation Minstead investigation team had to decide which incidents were unmistakably the work of the same offender and which were similar but possibly unrelated. Therefore, many possible Minstead incidents flagged up by police for the attention of the Operation Minstead team could not be definitely confirmed as the work of the same offender, and so had to be excluded from the linked series. The confirmed series of offences began in October 1992 in the Shirley area of Croydon. However, because of a break of four years between this first attack and a spate of others, Operation Minstead was not set up until 1998. Although committing many crimes, Grant was dormant for long periods. After the first