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| Rapist gets five life sentences | Rapist gets five life sentences |
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| A man has received five life sentences for a string of rapes on women near their homes in east London. | A man has received five life sentences for a string of rapes on women near their homes in east London. |
| Lester Ford, 24, attacked four women in or near their homes, then wrote descriptions of the sex acts he had forced them to do. | Lester Ford, 24, attacked four women in or near their homes, then wrote descriptions of the sex acts he had forced them to do. |
| When he was arrested, soon after the fourth attack, police found a folder with details of his crimes. | When he was arrested, soon after the fourth attack, police found a folder with details of his crimes. |
| Southwark Crown Court had heard how Ford, of Pemell Close, London, had threatened to kill all his victims. | |
| 'Stunted development' | |
| Ford had been seen peering through windows of houses near his east London residence. | |
| He had raped two of his victims, including a 61-year-old woman. | |
| The court had heard Ford had "little chance of developing normally". | |
| It was told he had been brought up in a brothel by a mother who had a "malign influence" over him. | |
| Doctors who examined him likened him to a 14-year-old boy despite his age. | |
| Ford had threatened his victims with a knife, and in one case an iron bar. Two of those attacked had allowed him into their home - on one occasion Ford had impersonated a police officer. | |
| The victim, who had been working until early in the morning, heard a knock at the door and a male voice saying: "It's the police we've found someone round the back." | |
| When she opened the door, Ford forced his way in and threatened her wife a knife. He sexually assaulted her and then fled when he heard a TV upstairs. |