[3] Reid's avocation was football, and he refereed and coached amateur matches in the Wimbledon district league and Battersea Park, sometimes for teams of children and women.
[4] Reid's pattern involved driving around South London districts—most frequently Tooting and Balham, close to where he lived—looking for women walking home alone.
[3] In 2002, police discovered links between 26 sexual assaults in the Wandsworth area of London dating back two years, and Reid was detained after a woman complained of being followed by him, but no further action was taken.
[4] In both 2004 and 2006, a car matching the description of Reid's red Volkswagen Golf was witnessed in connection with two separate sexual assaults, once via CCTV.
[3] In March 2009, Reid was convicted at Kingston upon Thames Crown Court of two rapes and 26 sexual assaults committed in southwest London from 1995–2007, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In January 2018, more than a year after Reid's recommended non-parole period had elapsed, the Parole Board announced that his case had come up for review "following the standard six-month process for all indeterminate sentence prisoners".
[8] Three senior officers were subject to misconduct hearings for the errors made in the investigations, including not taking Reid's DNA sample when he became a police suspect.