同性２００人近くをレイプ、留学生に終身刑　英マンチェスター

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】英中部マンチェスターの裁判所は6日、同国史上最多とされる性的暴行に及んだインドネシア国籍の学生に終身刑を言い渡した。被告の男は同性であることで疑いを抱かなかった男性たちに薬を盛り、意識を失わせて襲っていた。被害者は195人ほどに上るとみられている。（写真は被害者数が英国史上最多とされる性的暴行で、終身刑を言い渡されたレイナード・シナガ被告）
　マンチェスター刑事法院のスザンヌ・ゴダード判事は、インドネシア・ジャンビ州出身のレイナード・シナガ被告（３６）について「邪悪な性犯罪者」と表現し、少なくとも３０年の服役が必要だと述べた。
　博士号を取得するため大学院に在籍していたシナガ被告は、夜間にバーなどで酒を飲んでいた若い男性たちを自室に誘い、鎮静剤など薬物が入った酒を飲ませて意識を失わせた後、性的暴行を加えていた。またその様子を撮影もしていた。
　被害者の大半はレイプされたことを自覚していなかったが２０１７年、被害者の一人が暴行中に意識を取り戻し、シナガ被告の携帯電話を奪って警察に持ち込んだことから被告の逮捕につながった。
　英検察当局によると、シナガ被告はレイプ事件１３６件とレイプ未遂８件を含めた計１５９件の性的暴行などの罪で４つの裁判にかけられ、有罪判決を受けた。性的暴行を記録したＤＶＤ２５０枚に収められた３０万枚相当の画像が押収されたという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/01/07-13:28）

An Indonesian student described as Britain's most prolific rapist was jailed for life on Monday for a catalogue of sex offences on unsuspecting men he drugged and assaulted.
Manchester Crown Court in northwest England was told Reynhard Sinaga may have attacked as many as 195 men, luring them into his flat with the offer of a place to stay or alcohol.
Judge Suzanne Goddard described the 36-year-old from Indonesia's Jambi province as an evil sexual predator who preyed on drunken young men on nights out.
He is thought to have used sedatives to render his victims unconscious before filming the attacks. Most knew nothing about the assaults. He was caught only when one victim woke up.
One of your victims described you as a monster, Goddard said. The scale and enormity of your offending confirms this as an accurate description.
She recommended he serve at least 30 years behind bars.
Sinaga was convicted of 159 offences, including 136 rapes and eight attempted rapes, at four separate trials, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
The first trial began in June 2018. The last ended last December. None could be reported until restrictions imposed to avoid prejudicing juries were lifted on Monday.
The CPS said Sinaga was suspected of attacking scores more men since he moved to Britain in 2007, calling him the worst-known sex offender in the country's history.
The deputy chief crown prosecutor for northwest England, Ian Rushton, said: Reynhard Sinaga is the most prolific rapist in British legal history.
-- 'Playing dead ' --
His extreme sense of sexual entitlement almost defies belief and he would no doubt still be adding to his staggering tally had he not been caught.
Sinaga's unthreatening demeanour duped these young men -- many of whom thanked him for his kindness in offering them a place to stay -- into thinking this monster was a Good Samaritan.
But once back at his flat he used victims as objects purely for his own gratification -- then appears to have derived further twisted pleasure from re-watching his films in court and putting victims through the trauma of giving evidence.
Sinaga, a slightly built, young-looking doctorate student, had claimed his mainly heterosexual victims were acting out his sexual fantasy to play dead during intercourse.
But four trial juries rejected his defence and a character testimony from a local church he had attended in Manchester.
He was arrested in 2017 after the victim who woke up managed to snatch his mobile phone and took it to police.
The CPS said detectives discovered 3.29 terabytes of graphic material of the sexual assaults equivalent to 250 DVDs or 300,000 photos. One of the assaults lasted for eight hours.