Britain's most prolific serial rapist was today jailed for life after drugging at least 48 men and filming himself sexually violating them while they were unconscious in his flat. Police have linked gay Christian student Reynhard Sinaga to more than 190 potential victims in total - 70 of whom they have not yet been able to identify. The 36-year-old went out in the early hours of the morning, hunting for lone, drunk young men around nightclubs near his flat in Manchester city centre. The slightly-built Indonesian student posed as a Good Samaritan who offered them a floor to sleep on or promised them more drink, Manchester Crown Court heard.
His victims - who were mainly heterosexual - had little or no memory of the hours that followed as Sinaga filmed the assaults on his mobile phone, and they later left the apartment unaware they had been violated.
Sinaga, who arrived in the UK on a student visa in 2007 and studied at Manchester and Leeds universities, was convicted of 159 offences committed between January 2015 and May 2017 across four separate trials.
Today, Sinaga was jailed for 60 years and must serve a minimum of 30 years in custody before he can be considered for parole. Judge Suzanne Goddard QC told the court his total number of potential victims was 195.
Sentencing, she told Sinaga: 'You are an evil serial sexual predator who has preyed upon young men who came into the city centre wanting nothing more than a good night-out with their friends.
'One of your victims described you as a monster. The scale and enormity of your offending confirms this as an accurate description.'
The judge continued: 'Rarely, if ever, have the courts seen such a campaign of rape as this, covering so many victims over a prolonged period.'
She said the true scale of Sinaga's offending may never be known but that police appeared to have established 195 men were filmed by the defendant while unconscious.
Judge Goddard went on: 'It is ironic that were it not for the films that you took of your evil crimes it seems that most of these offences would not have even been discovered, let alone prosecuted.
'Your actions show you as a dangerous individual with no sense of reality.
'In my judgment you are a highly dangerous, cunning and deceitful individual who will never be safe to be released. That is for the Parole Board.'
Sinaga had shown 'not a jot of remorse', she continued, and noted at times he appeared to be 'actually enjoying the trial process'.
Details of the case - the UK's largest ever rape prosecution - can be made public today after reporting restrictions were lifted following the end of four trials.
Sinaga claimed the men consented to being recorded playing a sex game in which they pretended to be dead to fulfil his fantasies - a defence labelled 'preposterous' by prosecutor Iain Simkin as jurors saw footage of some victims snoring.
He was found guilty of a total of 159 offences committed between January 2015 and May 2017 - 136 counts of rape, 13 counts of sexual assault, eight counts of attempted rape and two counts of assault by penetration.
Many of the complainants had earlier been to the city centre nightclubs Factory and Fifth Avenue.
Sinaga's apartment, situated next to Factory in Princess Street, provided a perfect vantage point from which to identify his targets.
It is thought he laced alcoholic drinks with a drug such as GHB, also known as liquid ecstasy.
Overdoses of the odourless, colourless substance can kill, the court heard, but it was a risk that Sinaga was prepared to take with complete strangers to satisfy his perverted desires.
Sinaga kept 'trophies' of his crimes, such as watches and wallets.
He also downloaded social media pages from some of some of his victims, gleaned from personal identification they were carrying, and took still photographs of many of them while they were naked or semi-naked.
The court heard that none of the victims - many in their late teens or early 20s - wanted to know details of what had happened to them when traced by police and some have chosen not to tell their family or close friends of the trauma.
Sinaga tested negative for HIV after he was arrested.
Jurors had to watch the mobile phone footage as Sinaga persisted with his defence and all were later uniquely offered counselling.
Last June, Sinaga was jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years for the convictions from his first two trials.
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