‘Rapist’ twin released as brother confesses

It was a mystery worthy of crime series CSI, a series of rapes in France tracked back to identical twins with matching DNA, both of them jailed.

But the puzzle was solved after one of the twins, Yoan Gomis, confessed in court to the sexual assaults after some victims identified him through the fact that he is partially deaf and stutters.

After a series of three rapes, three attempted rapes and a sexual assault in the southern city of Marseille between September 2012 and February 2013, police discovered matching DNA in five of the cases.