When a police officer turned up unexpectedly at the door of a woman who had been attacked and raped in Cardiff 40 years before he simply said: "We've got him." They were the words she had never expected to hear in her lifetime – especially as four decades had passed since she was chased, attacked, and raped in a lane on her way home from a summer day out visiting family in Cardiff.
Police had spoken to hundreds of people in the Roath area at the time, the victim bravely took part in a reconstruction, and there were numerous police appeals but the attacker was never caught. Until now.
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