attacks on young women in Edinburgh over five years ago. A 21-year-old was grabbed from behind and sexually assaulted by a man in Craiglockhart Quadrant on Wednesday, August 5, 2015.
She got off a bus in Colinton Road just before the attack at around 10.30pm. Around three weeks later a teenage girl was raped by a man on Thursday, August 27, 2015.The 19-year-old got of a bus in Lanark Road West just after midnight.The man approached the victim in the Newmills Road area, claiming he had a knife.He led her to a nearby field where he raped her.The man who assaulted these women had not been on either bus.Advancements in DNA forensic science have established that both attacks were by the same person.Police have a full DNA profile of the man.
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