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| Man guilty of killing two mothers | Man guilty of killing two mothers |
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| A serial sex attacker has been found guilty of killing two mothers whose bodies have never been found. | A serial sex attacker has been found guilty of killing two mothers whose bodies have never been found. |
| Derek Brown, 47, denied murdering Xiao Mei Guo, 29, and Bonnie Barrett, 24, after taking them back to his flat in Rotherhithe, east London. | Derek Brown, 47, denied murdering Xiao Mei Guo, 29, and Bonnie Barrett, 24, after taking them back to his flat in Rotherhithe, east London. |
| He admitted paying DVD seller Miss Xiao and prostitute Miss Barrett for sex before their disappearance last year. | He admitted paying DVD seller Miss Xiao and prostitute Miss Barrett for sex before their disappearance last year. |
| Mr Brown, originally from Preston in Lancashire, refused to face cross examination at the Old Bailey. | Mr Brown, originally from Preston in Lancashire, refused to face cross examination at the Old Bailey. |
| Police believe loner Brown was trying to emulate Jack the Ripper and the murder of the two women could have been the beginning of a killing spree. | |
| Detectives have launched a nationwide review of unsolved cases to see whether Brown has links to any of them. | |
| The court heard Brown was a convicted rapist and a serial sex attacker who was a suspect in another murder case outside London. | |
| He has been identified by victims in five other rapes over the past two decades. | |
| Last week, Brown who had pleaded not guilty to the murders, stopped giving evidence in the trial while he was being cross-examined by the prosecution. |