Delroy Grant - Crime + Investigation UK

“If you asked me who the Nightstalker was I couldn’t tell you, but I could tell you who it wasn’t and it wasn’t Delroy Grant”

Delroy Easton Grant was born in Jamaica in 1957. At two-years-old his mother walked out on the family and left Grant in the care of his elderly grandparents. Grant’s father, a devout Christian, made the decision to move to the UK. Grant arrived in Britain aged 15, and not long after this his criminal career began.

Known at first for petty theft, he soon proceeded onto more serious offences including burglary, later spending time in jail for armed robbery. In 1975 he met his first wife Janet Watson. Within two weeks they were engaged. Janet believed she’d found her own prince charming, but after the wedding things took a dramatic turn for the worse. Janet discovered that Grant had an obsession with tidiness and being in control. She learnt that knives and forks need to be in the correct drawer, and couldn't have watermarks. If any were found she got a beating.

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Grant had a Jekyll and Hyde character. Out in public he knew the perfect way to behave and the right things to say, but in his own home he was the master, in control and his family must obey. The young couple had two children but after five years of abuse Janet left.

Grant moved to Leicester where he fathers another two children with a new girlfriend. But in 1991 he was sent to prison for handling stolen goods. Shortly after that the relationship ended and he headed back to South East London. It's there he met his second wife Jennifer Edwards. She’s a devoted Jehovah’s Witness and the community welcomed him with open arms.

The couple moved into a house in Brockley, South East London, where they raised their two boys and Jennifer’s two girls from a previous marriage. When Jennifer is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Grant, a former assistant in a care home, had to take care of her. He became a taxi driver by night and his wife’s carer by day.

His neighbours admired the way he looks after her. He was known as a pillar of the community, a good natured, always smiling, church-going family man. But unknown to them, beneath his devious exterior lay a sadistic, brutal rapist and burglar who targeted the vulnerable elderly and subjected them to the most horrific attacks.