Teenager reveals how he beat up attacker, escaped… then led police back to his lair 

Reynhard Sinaga (pictured above) is facing life for drugging and raping men

But for the bravery of one teenage victim, Reynhard Sinaga’s crimes may never have come to light.

The 18-year-old sixth former woke up in Sinaga’s flat to find himself being sexually assaulted.

Although still in a ‘confused and disorientated’ state he was able to push Sinaga off and fought with his naked attacker in order to escape.

Giving evidence, the victim said the rapist had persuaded him to go back to his flat to ‘get out of the cold’ after he lost touch with his friends in a nightclub.

He had left the Factory club in Manchester at around midnight and was waiting for a message from his friends when Sinaga approached.

At the flat the victim recalled having two shots of a red liquid. Sinaga then poured a ‘shot of clear liquid from something that looked like a Sambuca bottle’.

Although he had been drinking alcohol earlier that evening, the victim said he had been in the nightclub for only an hour and was not drunk.

He said he ‘blacked out’ after drinking the clear liquid and remembered nothing until he woke up hours later, early in the morning of June 2, 2017.

The victim, a 6ft and 13st rugby player, acknowledged he was physically stronger than the slightly-built, 5ft 7in Sinaga.

Reynhard Sinaga is pictured above leaving Montana House to prowl the streets for victims

Reynhard Sinaga is pictured above leaving Montana House to prowl the streets for victims

Patel hints at law change on date rape drug  

Priti Patel has ordered an urgent inquiry into ‘date rape drugs’ after Reynhard Sinaga used them for his horrific sex crimes.

The Home Secretary called on her official advisers to look at whether tougher controls are needed for drugs such as GHB, also known as ‘liquid ecstasy’.

Sinaga is thought to have laced alcoholic drinks with drugs to knock out victims before raping them.

During his sentencing, Judge Suzanne Goddard said date rape drugs were ‘regrettably freely available’.

GHB is used recreationally to produce feelings of euphoria but an overdose can lead to unconsciousness, coma and death.

Responding to the case, Miss Patel said: ‘I’m deeply concerned by the use of illegal drugs like GHB to perpetrate these crimes and have asked the independent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to expedite a review looking at whether our controls for these drugs are tough enough.’

GHB is a Class C drug with possession leading to up to two years’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine or both.

Selling it carries a penalty of up to 14 years.

One option the ACMD could decide to recommend is moving GHB to Class B, so that possession carries a five-year sentence.

It is five years since serial killer Stephen Port used GHB and other drugs to knock out victims before raping them. He murdered four men at his flat in Barking, East London. 

However, he felt ‘weak’, possibly from the after-effects of the date rape drug that is believed to have been put in his drink.

Sinaga bit him ‘a few times’ and ‘pulled him back’ as he tried to leave the flat. The struggle left the rapist unconscious.

The victim grabbed his possessions and fled – but he had to return to the flat to call for help because his mobile phone was out of battery.

A resident of another apartment let him in, cleaned him up and allowed him to phone police and his mother.

The teenager beat up Sinaga so badly that he decided to dial 999 for an ambulance. The schoolboy was himself arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm because the rapist needed hospital treatment for a suspected bleed on the brain.

The image above shows Sinaga's bedroom. There are sheets on the floor with bedding strewn around

The image above shows Sinaga’s bedroom. There are sheets on the floor with bedding strewn around

Drinks were found in his flat (pictured above) which he may have used to drug his victims before raping them

Drinks were found in his flat (pictured above) which he may have used to drug his victims before raping them 

But detectives became suspicious when Sinaga started behaving strangely in hospital and refused to unlock his phone.

His victim had discovered the white iPhone 4 in his jeans – possibly put there by Sinaga in a panic. ‘I have no idea how it got there so that’s the only explanation there could have been. I didn’t put it there. Sinaga must have put it in my pocket,’ the victim said.

The blunder was to be the sex attacker’s undoing, as the phone’s contents revealed the shocking truth about his vile activities.

Police found videos of three rapes and an attempted rape against the teenager when he was unconscious, plus footage of attacks on a huge number of other men. A black iPhone and other electronic devices at Sinaga’s flat yielded footage of further crimes. Iain Simkin, prosecuting, said: ‘Reynhard Sinaga targeted, isolated, drugged and sexually attacked each of these complainants while they were unconscious.

CCTV footage showed Sinaga walking down the street as he searched for victims

CCTV footage showed Sinaga walking down the street as he searched for victims 

A map of Manchester city centre shows where Sinaga's flat (in red) is located along with the nightclubs Factory and Fifth Avenue, which many of the complainants had earlier been to

A map of Manchester city centre shows where Sinaga’s flat (in red) is located along with the nightclubs Factory and Fifth Avenue, which many of the complainants had earlier been to

‘Further, he recorded himself doing it, and if he hadn’t, nobody might ever have found out.’

When befriending the young men he targeted, Sinaga came across as friendly and kind.

But the videos showed that whenever his groggy victims stirred, he would push them back to the floor to continue the assaults.

He would even turn out the light or cover the men with a duvet when he had finished.

Timeline of Reynhard Sinaga’s sexual assaults

January 2015 to May 2017: The period over which Reynhard Sinaga was said to have committed sex assaults against 48 men in Manchester

June 1 to July 10, 2018: Sinaga goes on his first trial which sees him convicted of 31 counts of rape, three counts of attempted rape and six counts of sexual assault. 

April 1 to May 7, 2019: Sinaga goes on trial for the second time and is convicted of 49 counts of rape, five counts of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault. He is jailed for 20 years after the first two trials.

September 16 to October 4, 2019:  Sinaga goes on his third trial and is convicted of 26 counts of rape, one count of assault by penetration and five counts of sexual assault.

December 2, 2019 and December 20, 2019: Sinaga goes on his fourth trial and is convicted of 30 counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault.

Today: Sinaga is jailed for at least 30 years over the third and fourth trials. In total, he was found guilty across all four trials of 159 offences – 136 rapes, eight attempted rapes, 14 sexual assaults, and one by penetration.

Most victims woke feeling ‘sick and disorientated’ but had no idea they had been raped.

Sinaga explained away the fact that some victims woke naked or partially-undressed by saying their clothes were covered in vomit and he had taken them off to make them more comfortable.

The majority of his victims parted on friendly terms with him. But on one occasion Sinaga became ‘aggressive and threatening’ to a man he had raped four times.

He warned he would ‘leather’ or bite him if he didn’t leave.

He tried to force another 18-year-old schoolboy victmi to give him cash, marching him to an ATM, but there was no money in his account. Some men even ‘felt guilty for having troubled [Sinaga] – a stranger to them – for a floor to sleep on for the night’, Judge Suzanne Goddard said.

One victim said: ‘As far as I was concerned, I thought he had done me a good turn. I agreed to be his friend on Facebook and I think I messaged him when I got home.’

But some victims had suspicions about their encounter.

Apart from the first teenager who fully woke up, another man came round while being attacked but ‘could not move his arms’.

He did not report the incident at the time and police became aware of what happened only due to the phone footage filmed by Sinaga.

On one occasion – two years before the rapist was caught – police attended his block of flats after a victim who had been reported missing by his girlfriend woke to find himself there.

The man did not believe anything untoward had happened and there was no reason to search the flat or question Sinaga, Manchester Crown Court was told.

Police were able to trace Sinaga’s victims because he had taken screenshots of their social media pages and kept personal items such as driving licences, bank cards and even one phone as ‘trophies’.

Sinaga did not wear a condom and the victims faced the added ordeal of medical tests before they were reassured they had not contracted any infections.

 

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