Rapist who attacked young mother in front of her baby son is trapped by DNA in skin she bit from his hand and kept in her mouth

I found this story on the main page of the Daily Mail. It was written by Anthony Joseph and published on 22^nd February 2016.

•    Trevor Lawler bluffed his way in by saying he escaped a kidnapping 

•    He pushed her against a wall and began punching the woman 

•    She fought back and bit a piece of skin from his hand as her baby cried 

•    He was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of ten years

An intruder raped a young mother in front of her baby son and was caught by DNA after the woman bit a chunk of skin from his hand and kept it in her mouth.

Irishman Trevor Lawler, 32, falsely claimed he had escaped a kidnapping to bluff his way into the 24-year-old victim's home.

Once he got in, he pushed her up against a wall and punched her repeatedly, while she was holding her 12-month-old baby.

The victim fought back and bit a piece of skin from Lawler's hand.

The attacker, from Greater Manchester, then stood over the woman and shouted, 'if you don't shut up, I will kill you stone dead right now' then raped her in front of the baby, at one point addressing the child to say, 'this is all your mother is f****g worth'.

As the baby continued to cry Lawler even tried to tend to him with hands bloodied from beating the boy's mother. 

When she managed to escape and run to a nearby home, she was so disfigured from the beating that her neighbour only recognised her by the sound of her voice.

Police later examined a piece of skin recovered from the rape victim's mouth the DNA profile matched Lawler's.

They discovered Lawler had just hours earlier attacked another woman, aged 33, when she woke up in bed alongside her seven-year-old son at 4.40am to find Lawler straddling over her.