Detectives pin their hopes on DNA breakthrough in bid to find rapist caught on CCTV carrying his helpless victim through city centre after she left bar with dwarf

• Detectives are pinning their hopes on DNA breakthrough in bid to find rapist
• Chilling CCTV showed the victim being carried  through Birmingham by suspect
• Police were told woman had left bar with a dwarf called Kevin in October 2014
• Rape case remains unsolved with police hoping for a forensic breakthrough 

Detectives are pinning their hopes on a DNA breakthrough in an effort to find a suspected rapist seen carrying his victim through Birmingham. 

Chilling CCTV shows the victim, then 25, being carried through the city centre by the prime suspect before she was attacked on October 19, 2014.

The victim had been on a night out to Walkabout on Broad Street before she was raped nearby and later found in a distressed state by a passerby.  

Police were told she had left the bar with a dwarf known only as Kevin at 4am.

The pair walked along Broad Street towards Granville Street when a man – described as black, tall, slim and shaven-headed – approached them near a Sainsbury’s store.

The victim and a dwarf known only as Kevin walked along Broad Street towards Granville Street when a man – described as black, tall, slim and shaven-headed – approached them near a Sainsbury’s store. He allegedly spoke to Kevin before violently grabbing the woman and carrying her across Tennant Street (pictured) where he raped her

He allegedly spoke to Kevin before violently grabbing the woman and carrying her across Tennant Street where he raped her.

Though police recovered DNA evidence which could identify the offender in July 2017,  the rapist has still not been brought to justice.

Detectives said ‘to date no one has been identified’ but a search on the DNA database is run ever year against information they have stored.

Police have also been unable to speak to Kevin as a ‘key witness’ despite two appeals in November 2014 and August 2015, when CCTV was released.  

Detective Constable Danette Calvey, of West Midlands Police’s Public Protection Unit, said at the time of the original CCTV appeal: ‘It must be remembered that this woman has been attacked and that she has displayed remarkable courage by allowing us to release the footage.

‘She hopes these new images may jog someone’s memory and that their call may make the difference to her attacker being caught or left to roam the streets.

‘I implore people to take a good look at the CCTV and focus on the man. I appreciate it was a long time ago but the situation will have looked very odd and will undoubtedly have stayed with you.

‘We will not give up on finding the man who carried out the attack.’ 

Source: Read Full Article