How did Britain’s worst serial rapist get away with it?

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🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This month Reynhard Sinaga was found guilty of drugging, raping and sexually assaulting 48 men. The judge told the 36-year-old student from Indonesia that he will “never be safe to be released”. Sinaga targeted young men on nights out in Manchester and lured them back to his flat where he would spike their drinks with GHB, a date rape drug, filming the attacks on his phone. Sinaga was offending for over two years before he was caught. Many of his victims were unaware they had been raped until they were contacted by the police. In this episode we speak to BBC journalist Daniel De Simone, who covered the trials, and Endang Nurdin from the BBC’s Indonesia Service, to hear how the story has been received there. We also talk to forensic toxicologist Simon Elliot about the dangers of GHB. If you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support can be found on the BBC Action Line website. Presenter: Matthew Price Producers: Duncan Barber and Alicia Burrell Mixed by Emma Crowe Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.0	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.5	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:10.0	a space to ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, how did Britain's worst serial rapist get away with it?
0:25.0	Because he was getting away with it for years, his name is Raynard Sinaga, and he was
0:38.9	raping or sexually assaulting men almost every week, sometimes night after night, for two and a half years.
0:47.0	Now normally I wouldn't read out a load of numbers because they're hard to get your
0:50.4	head around but just try and take this in.
0:53.3	Sinaga has been found guilty of 159 sex offenses, 136 of them, rapes.
1:01.3	The police say they've got evidence that he targeted at least 190 victims, and they
1:06.7	think there are others that they don't yet know about.
1:10.9	But this story doesn't just affect them.
1:12.4	It's also hurting the LGBT community in the country
1:15.2	where Sinaga was born. He's now 36. He's going to spend the rest of his life in prison.
1:21.6	And what stands out here isn't just that for a long time
1:24.8	most of his victims didn't know what he'd done to them. It's also the volume of
1:30.2	his offending. Really anecdotally people who were involved in looking at the case would express amazement
1:35.8	about you know how did he do anything else he just seemed to be doing this all the time.
1:41.1	One of the people who sat through Sinaga's court case watching days of evidence is Daniel
1:46.2	DeSimone, a producer who specializes in crime in the BBC's Home Affairs Department.
1:52.3	It was at night, so it was often overnight,
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