A 36-year-old man, Reynhard Sinaga, a former student of Indonesian origin, was sentenced to his third life sentence in Manchester today because he was found guilty of attracting 48 men to his apartment and raping him. The man has already been tried for other incidents and the police believe that the total of the victims is almost 200. The Guardian reports citing the prosecutors, according to which it would be the largest number of victims of rape by one person in British legal history.
A clean face, impeccable student glasses, apparently kind and ready to help anyone in difficulty: behind this mask was Reynhard Sinaga, a former Indonesian student residing in Manchester since 2007, defined by the magistrates who sentenced him to his umpteenth life sentence ' the worst rapist in Britain's history. ' The last sentence was issued last December, but only now, the British press explains, the magistrates have published the outcome and minutes of the trial. Sinaga, 36, lured hundreds of men in two and a half years, between 2015 and 2017 (the number of confirmed victims reached almost 200, but could still rise) outside the premises of central Manchester, and then sexually assaulting them in his apartment. After his arrest in 2017 and the first convictions, the investigations continued in the utmost confidentiality to protect the victims, many unaware of the seriousness of the case, up to the revelations that emerged from the last trial, referring specifically to violence against 48 men, concluded with yet another life sentence. To inflict her a female judge, Suzanne Goddard, who did not hesitate to call him an "evil sexual predator" recalling the testimony of a victim, who was deeply marked, who called him a "monster".