A PENSIONER lay passive out of fear she would be beaten up, during an alleged rape carried out by the man dubbed the Night Stalker, a court has heard.

Former minicab driver Delroy Grant is on trial for a string of night time burglaries and sex attacks at homes in Beckenham, Bromley, Orpington, Forest Hill, Shirley and Croydon, over a period of 17 years.

Yesterday jurors heard terrifying statements from some of the victims of the attacks, which Grant, of Brockley Mews, Brockley, stands accused of carrying out between 1992 and 2009.

Woolwich Crown Court heard chilling details of the alleged rape of an 82-year-old woman at her home in Addiscombe on July 29 in 1999.

In her witness statement read out by prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw QC, the woman described entering her living room and feeling a hand over her mouth.

She said: “I was so frightened, I went limp. I remembered saying something like, ‘I’m 82, what do you want with me?’”

She recalled how the defendant had tried to kiss her and even asked her to remove her false teeth.

The woman said: “I was absolutely terrified. I felt his big, wet, rubbery lips. It was horrible, I felt numb. He said ‘kiss me’ in a whisper. He then said ‘take these out’. He meant my teeth.”

Describing the rape, she said: “I just lay there passive. I didn’t want to be beaten up.

“My common sense told me I would be no match for this man.”

The jury heard the woman, who said her ordeal lasted “forever”, was told to take off her nightie as there was semen on it, which she later found her attacker had left in a bowl of water in her sink.

The woman, who has since died, said: “Since this man raped me my life has changed.

“I have been prescribed valium, I don’t sleep well and I wake up feeling down and very low.

“I don’t know why this happened. I’m still in a state of shock. It preys on my mind.”

In another victim’s account, a 71-year-old woman from Beckenham said she woke to find a large figure dressed in black, with his hand over her mouth, which she said felt “like a sponge”.

Recalling the break-in on June 20 in 1999, she said: “I was absolutely petrified.

“He grabbed the pillow and pulled it over my nose and mouth, I was having difficulty breathing. I thought I was going to die.”

She said in her statement that the man searched her bedroom and then asked for oral sex.

Following the attack, the woman, who was not the victim of any sexual offence, said she was unable to sleep in her house alone and that she had suffered bruising.

She said: “I received cuts to the inside of my mouth.

“My teeth were pushed through my bottom lip by the man applying pressure to the pillows which he placed on my face.”

Also among Grant’s alleged victims was an 83-year-old man in Coulsdon who suffered from Parkinson’s disease.

He woke on July 4 in 1999 to find a man at the end of his bed whispering ‘Give me the money’, jurors heard.

The man said: “He grabbed my shoulders and frogmarched me out of the bedroom into the lounge still whispering for money.”

He then said he was “frogmarched” back to his bedroom where he was indecently assaulted.

The man, who has since died, said: “If I was frightened before, this was much worse.”

Earlier in the day the jury heard how Grant's oldest alleged victim, an 89-year-old woman, left a detective in tears and said she regretted reporting the attack to police.

Detective Constable Yvette Daniel said the pensioner was clearly traumatised as doctors inspected her wounds.

The officer said she was "upset and concerned" as the widow tightly held her hand after the attack in Shirley in 1992.

Jamaican-born Grant, who sat in the dock wearing a pinstripe suit, denies a total of 29 offences including 16 charges of burglary, two of attempted burglary, three rapes, one attempted rape, one sexual assault and six indecent assaults.

The trial continues.