Tights-Fetish Rapist Begins A Stretch

A sexual predator with a fetish for women's tights – who pounced on two lone women in west London – has been caged for nine years.

Myles Thompson-Edwards, 25, was eventually tracked-down by police, who found a large collection of tights in the bedroom of his home in Murray Road, Ealing.

He pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court to raping a 36 year-old woman in the early hours of January 22, last year as she walked near his home in Blondin Park, Windmill Road.

He also admitted sexually assaulting a 27 year-old woman, who he grabbed in an alleyway off nearby Swyncombe Avenue on November 3, last year.

Detectives from the Met's Complex Case Team investigated the incidents and arrested Thompson-Edwards on November 4, last year.

He was bailed while forensic enquiries were carried out and charged on February 8, this year.

Detective Chief Inspector Adam Lowe of the Complex Case Team within the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, led the investigation. 



He said: "The evidence recovered identified Thompson-Edwards as having a fetish for women's tights and he clearly acted on this fetish when he attacked his victims.



"The streets of west London are safer without him.

“The offences he has been linked to span a twenty-month period and it is possible that others have been the victim of this man. 



"If you believe that this may be the case, please contact police locally by calling 101 or through my team on 020 8217 6538."