Warning: This article mentions sexual assault.
A mature student in the UK has been jailed for life for sexually assaulting dozens of men.
Police say Reynhard Sinaga, a 36-year-old mature student from Indonesia, abused at least 195 men between 2015 and 2017 by lurking outside of Manchester nightclubs and luring drunken men to his flat by posing as a Good Samaritan.
He would drug his victims and attack them while they were unconscious. Often he filmed the attack on his phone. Police found more than 800 videos of Sinaga assaulting his victims on two iPhones.
Sinaga has been convicted of 136 rapes. In total he faces charges of 159 offences, including sexual assault and attempted rape.
Police say it's likely he began the attacks as early as 2005, although the first verified charge was in 2015. He was caught in June 2017, reports CNN.
His case was kept under wraps until his sentencing on Monday to avoid jeopardising his four consecutive trials - necessary due to the sheer volume of his victims.
He is already serving life from his first two trials with a minimum of 20 years before he is considered for parole, reports The Guardian.
At the end of the third and fourth trials in December 2019 he was convicted of counts relating to 23 more victims. At least 70 victims have not yet been identified.
He has now been jailed for a minimum of 30 years, reports The Independent.
North-west deputy chief crown prosecutor Ian Rushton called Sinaga the "most prolific rapist in British legal history".
At his sentencing on Monday, Judge Suzanne Goddard QC said he was "a dangerous, deeply disturbed and perverted individual with no sense of reality" and that he should never be released from prison.
"I want Sinaga to spend the rest of his life in prison," said one victim.
"Not only for what he has done to me but for what he has done to the other lads and the misery and stress he has caused them."
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