A 48-year-old Frenchman who is accused of rape collected other men’s sperm from used condoms and left traces at the crime scene in order to confuse police, justice officials said on Thursday.
Jean-Luc Cayez, who worked as doorman of an apartment block at Soisy-sur-Seine south of Paris, told police that he extracted the condoms from the building’s rubbish bins and then froze the contents.
Cayez has confessed to the rape and murder of Audrey Jouannet (24), who was found dead in her apartment in the building last month, officials said.
The doorman came under immediate suspicion because he had two previous convictions for rape, but he appeared to be exonerated when the sperm found on the woman’s sheets was found not to be his.
Cayez said he got the idea from watching a detective programme on television. — AFP