DNA test leads to charges 30 years after rape rampage

A MAN suspected of raping 25 women in a rampage spanning three US states has been arrested after a forgotten piece of evidence was DNA-tested - more than 30 years later.

Clarence Williams, aged 58, was charged with the 1973 rape of a New York woman when DNA from her underwear was checked against a national database, linking him to the crime.

He is also a suspect in a further nine unsolved sexual assaults in Maryland and two in New Jersey and potentially at least 12 others between 1987 and 1993.