Britain’s longest-serving prisoner murderer and rapist Ronald Evans – known as the Clifton Rapist - has been released after spending a total of 57 years behind bars. A new ITV documentary, Decoy, will disclose how Avon and Somerset Police sent out undercover officers to trap Evans in a covert operation in the late 1970s.
Women in Bristol were living in fear of a horrific sex attacker stalking the Bristol Downs in search of victims. The campaign of terror first started in 1977 when women, aged between 18 and 33, reported attacks around the Clifton and Durdham Downs.
A honeytrap plan was hatched to arrest Evans when he last walked free in the 1970s. He was responsible for seven sex attacks which prompted a ground-breaking decoy operation involving young female police officers, which will be told for the first time by ITV News.
