DJ Richard Baker - initially dubbed the A13 rapist - was convicted on Friday of three rapes and a string of other sex offences. The Old Bailey jury of nine women and three men delivered a unanimous verdict after eight hours and 20 minutes of deliberations.

May 13, 1998: A 22-year-old woman is indecently assaulted in Kilburn, north London, at 11.15pm.

Baker denied he was responsible for this attack.

At this time Baker was staying with a friend in north London while working as a runner for a television production company at the Chelsea Flower Show. He dreamed of a career in television.

May 19, 1998: A 35-year-old woman is indecently assaulted in an empty garage in Highgate, north London, at 10.15pm. Pages from a pornographic magazine are found there with scientific evidence which matches Baker's DNA profile.

Baker pleaded guilty to this attack.

May 23, 1998: A 16-year-old girl is raped on waste ground on the Peckwater Estate, Kentish Town, north-west London, at 11.45pm. The girl had been on her way to meet her mother at a social club.

DNA profiles and a shoe print link Baker to the attack. He denied rape.

Baker flew out to Spain where he worked until August.

He arrived back in the UK on August 29, 1998, hired a car and drove to Brighton.

It is bank holiday weekend and he told the jury Brighton is the sort of place he "thrives on."

August 29, 1998: An 18-year-old girl is sexually assaulted in Brighton at around midnight. Unable to get into her home because her key has broken in the lock, she cowers behind a parked van for five hours until her housemates come home.

DNA profiles link Baker who admitted attacking the girl but denied attempted rape.

Baker then went to visit a friend in Wickford.

He left her address around 4pm on August bank holiday Monday and drove to Southend where he enjoyed a fish and chip supper and played on slot machines in the amusement arcades until it was dark.

August 31, 1998: A 15-year-old girl is raped in the grounds of Belfairs Swimming Pool, Eaton Road, Leigh, at 3am.

DNA profiles link Baker who admitted attacking the girl but denied rape.

Baker then flew out to Spain on September 4 and arrived back in the UK on September 11.

September 12, 1998: A 16-year-old girl is indecently assaulted in the underpass in Queensway, Southend, at 9.30pm. Her boyfriend rescues her from the clutches of her attacker.

Baker denied he was responsible for the indecent assault and affray.

September 12, 1998: A 21-year-old woman is indecently assaulted just over a mile from the underpass in Beedell Avenue, Westcliff, at 10.45pm.

Again DNA evidence and a fingerprint on the victim's shoe links Baker to the attack. He pleaded guilty to indecent assault.

September 13, 1998: Six hours later, a 26-year-old woman is raped in St John's Wood, north west London, at 4.30am. The terrified victim is held for 90 minutes by Baker.

DNA profiles link Baker who admitted the attack but denied rape.

Baker made another trip to Spain, arriving back in late October.

October 28, 1998: A 21-year-old woman is indecently assaulted in Bethnal Green, east London, at 10.45pm.

Baker denied he was responsible for this attack.

October 29, 1998: A 22-year-old woman is indecently assaulted in her home in West Hampstead, at 3pm.

DNA profiles and a mobile phone Baker stole linked him to the attack. He pleaded guilty to indecent assault.

December 11, 1998: A 25-year-old woman is indecently assaulted outside her home in the Regents Park area of west London, at 6pm.

DNA profiles again linked Baker to the attack. He pleaded guilty to indecent assault.

December 11, 1998: A 35-year-old woman is assaulted in Regents Park, west London, at 8pm, by Baker. She fights him off but Baker later calls police anonymously to say he had witnessed what he thought was a bag snatch by an Asian-looking man in the park, to try and cover his tracks.

Baker pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm.

Baker was arrested at Heathrow Airport in the early hours of December 16 - just hours after a nationwide television appeal for information was broadcast on the BBC's Crimewatch UK programme.

He had been due to board a flight to Malaga in Spain.

"You are a thoroughly dishonest person - a thief and a robber."

Nicholas Hilliard, prosecuting.

"A wicked, wicked man with an evil, clever and cunning mind."

Senior investigating officer, Det Supt David Bright.

"He made me say 'I love it James' to him. I was crying - I said 'please don't rape me'."

Baker's 15-year-old victim from Leigh.

"I probably found them all quite attractive - their figures, their looks, their hair."

Richard Baker.

"He asked me my name, where I lived and if I had a boyfriend. He was being quite pleasant really. Then he started to undo my blouse."

Baker's first victim - a 22-year-old woman.

"I kept speaking to him because I wanted him to realise I was a person. I asked if he believed in God."

Baker's 18-year-old Brighton victim.

"I wouldn't plan it for weeks on end. It was usually spontaneous - a spur of the moment thing. I wouldn't say 'it's 4.30, I must attack a woman'."

Richard Baker.

"He started sobbing into his hands, saying he was sorry and that it was the pills he was on."

Baker's first victim.

"This isn't rape. Rape is battering you black and blue and leaving you for dead."

Richard Baker.

"My whole body froze, I thought I was going to die."

Baker's Brighton victim.

Early days - DJ Baker was learning his trade during the '80s

Converted for the new archive on 19 November 2001. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.