36-year-old student Reynhard Sinaga has been making international headlines for all the wrong reasons.
As reported by BBC, the Indonesian native was found guilty for over 160 sex offences, including 136 rape cases involving a number of young men in the UK. The crime was allegedly committed from January 2015 to June 2017.
Dubbed as the “most prolific rapist in legal history” by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), we’ve come out with a compilation of 5 things to know about this culprit as well as the details of the disgusting crimes he made:
1. Who is Reynhard Sinaga and why was he in England?
Sinaga was born to wealthy Indonesian parents who are currently residing in Depok, West Java, Indonesia. He pursued his studies in Sociologies at the University of Manchester where he obtained a student visa and migrated to England in 2007. In 2012, he began his PhD at the University of Leeds.
2. He filmed his assaults and kept them in his phone
The culprit was caught in June 2017 when one victim fought him off and called the cops after he had regained consciousness during his assault. The police found out that Sinaga had filmed hundreds of hours of footages of his assaults.
It didn’t stop there, though. He was also reported to have taken some nude pictures of the victims. Scary, huh?
3. He drugged the victims before assaulting them
According to judge Suzanna Goddard, she was sure that the poor men who fell prey were under the influence of a date rape drug such as GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyrate). In this case, the victims had zero memory of what had happened after they became conscious.
4. Victims’ personal items were kept as memories
Sinaga would wait for his preys outside of local nightclubs before luring them to his flat in Montana House, Princess Street. He would often offer them to go somewhere to have a drink or call a taxi.
It was also revealed during the mentioning of the case that Sinaga also took some of his victims’ personal belongings after he had fulfilled his sexual pleasure. The items include clothes and even handphones that were kept as a form of ‘souvenirs’ left by the victims to be kept as memories.
5. Dubbed as a sexual predator by the British legal team
During the hearing of the case, judge Goddard described him as an “an evil serial sexual predator who has preyed upon young men who wanted nothing more than a good night out with their friends”. The police also noted his skilful tactics in manipulating the victims. According to the officials, he was able to find his prey in just 60 seconds!
The UK news outlet further reported that the judge has ruled his life sentence with at least 30 years in prison.
Source: BBC.
