Surviving Sinaga
Reynhard Sinaga is the UK's most prolific rapist. Posing as a good Samaritan outside Manchester nightclubs, he drugged, sexually assaulted and filmed his depraved acts with at least 200 young men for the past 12 years. Sinaga, 36, was found guilty of carrying out a two-and-a-half year campaign in which he approached drunk young men outside Manchester clubs and lured them back to his apartment under the guise of giving them a place to sleep or recharge their phones. When they got there, he gave them drinks spiked with sedatives, prosecutors said, before making sure they were unconscious and then raping them, sometimes for hours. In some cases, he also stole personal items such as watches to keep as "trophies" of his victims. Sinaga was convicted of 136 counts of rape, 14 counts of sexual assault, eight counts of attempted rape and one count of assault by penetration. In the first two trials he was given 88 concurrent life sentences with a minimum 30 year term before being considered for parole. This was raised to 40 years by the Court of Appeal on 11 December 20. Written by Ulf Kjell Gür
