Antoni Imiela (1954[1] – 8 March 2018) was a German-born convicted serial rapist who grew up in County Durham, England.
He grew up in displaced people camps until the age of 7 when the family emigrated to the United Kingdom, settling in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.
[3] By September 2002, police had identified the existence of an extremely dangerous serial rapist who, an hour after one attack, had used the victim's mobile phone to taunt her mother.
Once police had his DNA they launched a public appeal for information which resulted in a woman coming forward who expressed suspicion about her neighbour.
On 18 October 2010, Imiela was charged with the rape, indecent assault and buggery of a 29-year-old woman, Sheila Jankowitz, on 25 December 1987 in Forest Hill, south east London, following a case review using new forensic techniques.
A statement by the late Sheila Jankowitz, who was murdered in her native South Africa in 2006 in an unrelated crime, was read to the court by the prosecuting barrister, Richard Hearnden.