Antoni Imiela denies nine counts of rape and one of abduction

Mr Justice Owen told the jurors at Maidstone Crown Court Dr James Walker had agreed with other findings.

Antoni Imiela, 49, from Appledore, in Kent, denies nine counts of rape and one count of attempted rape.

The judge has adjourned the case until Wednesday when the jury is expected to be sent out.

Mr Imiela, a former railway worker, is accused of carrying out the rapes on women and girls in Surrey, Hertfordshire, west London and Kent between November 2001 and November 2002.

DNA on clothes

He is also charged with the kidnap, indecent assault and attempted rape of a 10-year-old girl in Birmingham.

Mr Justice Owen has been summing up the case on Monday and Tuesday as the seven week trial draws to a close.

On Tuesday he told the jury Dr Walker had differed in his conclusions over DNA found on clothes worn by a 26-year-old woman raped in Epsom, Surrey, in August 2002.

Scientists giving evidence for the prosecution said components of DNA matching that of Mr Imiela had been found and told the court the chances of the DNA coming from an unrelated person were one in three million.

The judge reminded the jury Dr Walker had also analysed the results and had said the figure was one in 30,000.

But he added: "That is the only respect in which Dr Walker differed in any of the evidence given by any of the forensic scientists called by the prosecution."

Other DNA evidence presented to the court has included statistics of one in a billion and one in 114 million that matches between Mr Imiela's DNA profile and samples taken from crime scenes came from an unrelated person.