Rapist jailed after DNA match
Friday 21 December 2012 @ 10.32 a.m. | Crime
A man who abducted a young woman and repeatedly raped her has been jailed for 14 years, after a DNA match.
The Adelaide District Court heard the woman was walking to her YMCA accommodation in Flinders Street in the city in the early hours of the morning in November 1989.
Two men pulled up next to her in a car and forcibly abducted her.
They drove the victim around Adelaide and through the hills, repeatedly raped her. The offenders could not be identified at the time, but both were caught using DNA matches in 2010.
Trevor James Birmingham pleaded guilty and was jailed for at least 10 years. Gregory James Smith was found guilty at trial.
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