- A 30-year-old man has been jailed for attacking sex worker in violent act in 2013
- Michael Joel Kay pleaded guilty to a number of charges and was found guilty
- Kay set fire to The World Famous Love Machine brothel in Sydney five years ago
A 30-year-old man has been jailed for attacking a Sydney sex worker and destroying property at a brothel when he felt he’d been ripped off.
Michael Joel Kay pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm and larceny and was found guilty by a judge of destroying property at The World Famous Love Machine in 2013.
A court was told Kay punched and choked sex worker Anne McGarry, who he thought had scammed him out of more than $800.
A 30-year-old man has been jailed for attacking a Sydney sex worker and destroying property at a brothel (pictured) when he felt he’d been ripped off
Michael Joel Kay pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm and larceny and was found guilty by a judge of destroying property at The World Famous Love Machine in 2013 (pictured)
Kay paid Ms McGarry $285 for sex in a private upstairs room before he attacked the woman in her 60s and dragged her across the floor, according to News Corp.
‘I fought for my life for seven, eight minutes in that room,’ Ms McGarry told the court late last year.
Shortly after the attack, a fire broke out in the brothel’s upstairs room causing extreme water and smoke damage.
In the NSW District Court on Friday, Judge Peter Zahra sentenced Kay to a maximum of two years and five months in prison.
Kay was given a non-parole period of one year and three months.
A court heard Kay punched and choked sex worker Anne McGarry, who he thought had scammed him out of more than $800, before he destroyed the brothel (left and right)
In the NSW District Court on Friday, Judge Peter Zahra sentenced Kay to a maximum of two years and five months in prison and non-parole period of one year and three months