A SERIAL rapist who attacked three women in the 1990s has finally been jailed.

Wayne Liddy, 44, admitted raping two women in Leytonstone and Forest Gate and indecently assaulting a third in Wanstead Flats.

He was jailed at Woolwich Crown Court last week for a total of 12 years after DNA evidence linked him to the sexual assaults.

The first attack happened on October 17, 1992, when Liddy grabbed a 35-year-old woman who was returning home from a night out, dragged her into a garage area and raped her in Earlham Grove, Forest Gate.

Less than a month later Liddy, threatened a 22-year-old woman in Wanstead Flats, near Manor Park station, threatened her and forced her to undress. He then forced her to perform a sexual act.

On March 21, 1993, Liddy dragged a 27-year-old woman to a secluded area of an underground car park in Kirkdale Road, Leytonstone and raped her.

Liddy was not identified as the rapist and the crimes had gone unsolved.

But in 2007, Liddy was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage in Northern Ireland and his DNA taken, which matched samples taken from the crime scenes.

Liddy was sentenced to three years for the Wanstead Flats attack and three-and-a-half years for each of the other rapes, to run consecutively.