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Now here's where the story gets even stranger. When faced with overwhelming DNA evidence linking him to multiplecrime scenes, most criminals either confess or go silent. Not Delroy Grant. Instead, he launched what can only be described as a series of absurd legal defenses. First, he claimed he was framed. By whom? [long pause] His disabled ex-wife. The woman he supposedly still cared for. He alleged she had access to his DNA and somehow planted it across dozens of crime scenes over two decades. When that didn't work? He blamed corrupt police officers. Said they were setting him up. That they'd planted his DNA to close the case and ease public pressure. And then—and this is almost unbelievable—he suggested he had a rare genetic condition that made him share DNA with other people. A scientific impossibility presented as reasonable doubt. The jury didn't buy it. In March 2011, Delroy Grant was convicted of 29 offences—including rape, indecent assault, and burglary. The true number of his crimes? Estimated at over 600 attacks. The judge, sentencing him to life with a minimum of 27 years, called him "a very evil man" and one of the most dangerous criminals in the country. Grant showed no emotion. No remorse. Even in the face of elderly victims who'd come to court to see him convicted, he remained stone-faced.