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DNA cracks 30-year-old case Accused GTA rapist unmoved by arrest
The hunt by GTA police for Alexander Winston Sylvester began 30 years ago, at a time when there were no computerized police data banks or DNA testing. It successfully ended this month when Sylvester, 55, stood up in Old City Hall Court to face charges of
sexual assault with a weapon, kidnapping, forcible confinement, robbery and threatening death. One of the four sex attacks Sylvester’s charged with dates back to 1981, when a 14-year-old girl was dragged into bushes and raped in Mississauga. That victim, now
Has served time in U.S. for range of charges including murder 44, told police she’d be willing to testify in court. So have three women — all of whom are now seniors — who were sexually assaulted at gunpoint in their homes in the Huntingwood Avenue and Brimley Road area of Scarborough in June 1993.
Forensic evidence from the 14year-old’s attack had been stored in a Peel police fridge until 2002, when an officer decided to send it to the downtown Toronto Centre of Forensic Sciences for testing. Shortly afterwards, the victim learned a suspect had finally been
identified in her attack. Sylvester originally arrived in Toronto in 1980 as a visitor from Jamaica. Since the 1990s, the GTA has remained a home of sorts for Sylvester, who once jumped parole in the U.S. to visit a wife here. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Norway suspect sought revolution Anders Breivik, blamed for killing 93 people during terrorist attacks on Norway’s government headquarters and an island retreat for young people, wanted to trigger an anti-Muslim revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said yesterday. A manifesto he published online ranted against Muslim immigration. More coverage, pages 6-7.
Mourners pay their respects yesterday near Utoya island, seen top left, following Friday’s twin extremist attacks in Norway.
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