The South Yorkshire shoe fetishist rapist caught over 20 years after a string of attacks on women
Lloyd had an obsession with shoes and would take them as trophies from his victims
A sexual predator dubbed the Dearne Valley shoe rapist - named after his secret collection of victims’ stilettos - was caught over 20 years after a string of attacks on women.
James Lloyd was 49 when he admitted four rapes and two attempted rapes in 2006, having dragged women off the street in Rotherham and Barnsley and tying up the horrified females with pairs of tights.
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His crimes are understood to have been committed between 1983 and 1986 - when he suddenly stopped. However he was finally tracked down following a cold-case review which police began in 2002.
As part of the investigation DNA samples gathered in the early 1980s were compared with samples on the police database - more than 40 close matches were produced.
The third house officers visited was that of Lloyd's sister, whose sample had been stored after her arrest for drink driving. Father-of-two Lloyd was in a senior management position at a printing firm at the time.
In the lead-up to his arrets Lloyd, formerly of Thurnscoe, is said to have told a relative told a relative: "Look after my children. I have committed a series of offences 20 years ago."
After his guilty plea at Sheffield Crown Court investigating officer Det Insp Angie Wright said Lloyd had an obsession with shoes and would take them as trophies from his victims.
He would steal their shoes, jewellery and perfume. Detectives found more than 100 pairs of stilettos hidden behind a locked trapdoor at his workplace, Dearne Valley Printers.
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Detective searches also uncovered a series of videos of him and his wife Pat having sex. She was often tied up and appeared to be comatose.
Lloyd was seen to stop what he was doing and replace his wife's stilettos if one of them fell off. He was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years.
However in 2007 his minimum term was cut in half to just over seven years and he would have been released in 2014.
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