The Sun :
Carnelley, now 52, was forced to give a sample in 2010 after he was accused of assaulting a teenager while confronting a gang of rowdy youths outside his five-bedroom house.
But it took another five years for detectives to pin the rape on him after Nottinghamshire Police carried out a cold case review of unsolved crimes in 2015. DNA samples on the victim’s clothes were taken and provided a match with Carnelley when they were put in the police national database. The businessman was finally put behind bars yesterday for seven years after admitting rape at Nottingham Crown Court.
He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely. Judge Stuart Rafferty QC said: “At the age of 26 you did something absolutely unforgivable. “As the time went by you simply confined her and that night to memory. “Were it not for advances in science you would never have been caught. “Thank heavens sometimes for science.” The court heard how Carnelley, who ran a successful printing firm, bundled the woman into an alleyway in Nottingham city centre on September 14, 1990.
Carnelley, now 52, was forced to give a sample in 2010 after he was accused of assaulting a teenager while confronting a gang of rowdy youths outside his five-bedroom house.
But it took another five years for detectives to pin the rape on him after Nottinghamshire Police carried out a cold case review of unsolved crimes in 2015. DNA samples on the victim’s clothes were taken and provided a match with Carnelley when they were put in the police national database. The businessman was finally put behind bars yesterday for seven years after admitting rape at Nottingham Crown Court.
He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely. Judge Stuart Rafferty QC said: “At the age of 26 you did something absolutely unforgivable. “As the time went by you simply confined her and that night to memory. “Were it not for advances in science you would never have been caught. “Thank heavens sometimes for science.” The court heard how Carnelley, who ran a successful printing firm, bundled the woman into an alleyway in Nottingham city centre on September 14, 1990.
