Using DNA technology, a man was identified as a suspect in three alleged sexual assaults that took place over 11 years.
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A man who allegedly used a learner's car to pick up and sexually assault women and a child has been identified more than two decades after the incidents following the use of DNA technology.
During a press conference on Thursday, Detective Superintendent Jayne Doherty provided harrowing detail of the incidents.
'It's horrendous,' she said. 'He's a predator. We've got him off the streets.'
She said an 11-year-old girl was allegedly approached about 9.30am on March 16, 1991, in Glendenning by a man and dragged into the passenger seat of his car.
He allegedly drove her around before stopping and sexually assaulting her, later dropping her at Mount Druitt Railway Station.
Police said the girl told them she saw a pedal in the passenger's seat, which made her think that it was a learner driver's car.
For the three historic cases, police identified a close relative of the alleged attacker, leading them to arrest Kwan on the NSW north coast on Wednesday.
'He has not been in trouble for serious offenses. He has not had a DNA sample taken and put on our database, because he's never had anything more than minor traffic matters,' Det Supt Doherty revealed.
During the press conference on Thursday, she was asked about the first alleged victim's observation that the alleged attacker was driving a learner's car.
'There were numerous lengthy inquiries made at the time and again at the start of our re investigation to look at all people that were learner driving instructors around that time in NSW,' Det Supt Doherty said.
'His name had not come up at that point in the initial investigation.
'However, when we executed the warrant [on Wednesday], we found evidence of him being a learner driver at that time and owning a car similarly described with that pedal in it.
