Sex worker reveals details of Kings Cross brothel at trial

A renowned Kings Cross sex worker has revealed what life inside the world-famous brothel ‘Love Machine’ is like, while giving evidence at a trial.

Anne McGarry said she had to fight for her life when a ‘strange’ and ‘frightening’ client attacked her, a Sydney court heard Monday.

The accused man was 30-year-old Michael Joel Kay, who is alleged to have intentionally started a fire at the premises after paying for sex with Ms McGarry in the early hours of May 3, 2013.

Renowned Kings Cross worker Anne McGarry has revealed what life inside the world-famous brothel ‘Love Machine’is like, while giving evidence at a Sydney trial against Michael Joel Kay

Taking to the witness stand, Ms McGarry told the Downing Centre District Court that Kay had got on top of her and grabbed her by the throat.

‘He was trying to kill me… I fought for my life for seven, eight minutes in that room,’ she said.

She told him to get dressed and get out but as they were leaving Kay allegedly attacked her again.

Ms McGarry said he put his hand around her throat, grabbed her hair and kicked her in the head.

‘I was afraid he was going to choke me to death,’ Ms McGarry, believed to be in her 60s said.

‘I would have been dead if God didn’t give me the strength.’ 

Ms McGarry said she had been working out of Room One in the brothel, with four younger women – named Champagne, Candy, Tessa and Nicole – also seeing clients that night, according to News.com.au.

She said that Kay’s attack had left her ‘sick, bleeding’ and that he had been the only customer she had ever had ‘trouble with’.

Ms McGarry said she had to fight for her life against the 'strange' client, who is accused of intentionally started a fire at the premises after paying for sex in the early hours of May 3, 2013

Ms McGarry said she had to fight for her life against the ‘strange’ client, who is accused of intentionally started a fire at the premises after paying for sex in the early hours of May 3, 2013

Taking to the witness stand, Ms McGarry told the Downing Centre District Court that Kay had got on top of her and grabbed her by the throat at the premises

Taking to the witness stand, Ms McGarry told the Downing Centre District Court that Kay had got on top of her and grabbed her by the throat at the premises

After the initial alleged assault Kay allegedly ran upstairs and was brought back down by security.

‘He came down the stairs and he kicked me again and he mumbled “I’ve set the place on fire” or “I’m going to set the place on fire”,’ Ms McGarry said.

She couldn’t remember his exact words, she said.

‘I was so shaken and (there was) blood coming everywhere but I did hear the mumble,’ she said. 

Ms McGarry’s told the court Kay was her first client for the night and that he said he had been ‘refused from every other club,’ New Limited reports. 

‘It was apparent to you that Mr Kay was not a normal person?’ his lawyer Anthony Barber asked.

‘He seemed very strange… He was very frightening,’ ‘ Ms McGarry said.

Ms McGarry said he put his hand around her throat, grabbed her hair and kicked her in the head, before the two left the room and he 'came down the stairs... kicked me again and mumbled "I've set the place on fire"'

Ms McGarry said he put his hand around her throat, grabbed her hair and kicked her in the head, before the two left the room and he ‘came down the stairs… kicked me again and mumbled “I’ve set the place on fire”‘

Ms McGarry said Kay, who was mumbling all the time, initially paid her $285 then an additional $100 to stay for a full hour. 

Mr Barber suggested Ms McGarry had offered to get Kay drugs, and he’d given her $880.

‘That is the most ridiculous thing you could say to me,’ Ms McGarry said.

‘I don’t touch drugs and I certainly wouldn’t get anyone like that drugs.’

She also denied she had ripped him off, saying ‘he was ripped off by a girl up the road because he was carrying on like a nanny goat.’ 

Kay previously pleaded guilty to assaulting the sex worker and stealing her mobile phone.  

Ms McGarry said bringing him up to her room was the biggest mistake of her life.

The judge-alone trial continues. 

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