Cop who led hunt for serial sex attacker 'the fox' speaks out after his death in prison

Catching The Fox (Image: Getty) THE police officer who led the hunt for Malcolm “The Fox” Fairley has spoken of his relief, after the serial rapist died in prison. The offender’s reign of terror 40 years ago was dubbed “The Summer of the Fox” as his modus operandi was to break into homes in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Bucking-hamshire, make a makeshift den of blankets and lie in wait for his victims to return home. Sometimes he broke in at night as women slept, masked and brandishing a shotgun.

His sex crimes in the summer of 1984 were fuelled by watching violent pornographic videos and were so horrific, many of the details remain only known to his victims, the police and the trial judge. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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