rsherdley published Rapist trapped by DNA evidence 26 years after Nottingham attack

A businessman who raped a lone woman in Nottingham city centre 26 years ago has been jailed after he was finally tracked down using DNA evidence.Police caught Mark Carnelley, 52, of Ambleside in Gamston, after he complained about rowdy teenagers outside his home a few years ago. He was arrested on suspicion of assaulting one of the children and was let off with a caution. But after a sample of his DNA was checked on the police database, it matched a man wanted for committing an unsolved rape in.