GUILTY Australia - British backpacker rescued after kidnapping/rape ordeal, 5 March 2017

[MelmothTheLost]

British backpacker 'raped and held captive for two months' rescued from Australian outback

• Police allege British backpacker repeatedly raped and bashed over two months
• The 22-year-old woman was found by police with serious facial injuries
• She had two black eyes and marks on her throat, service station worker said
• The woman allegedly took off in a white Mistubishi Pajero without paying for fuel
• Worker gave chase, spotted police near the town bank and told them
• The accused captor is a 22-year-old Cairns man

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world...stralian-outback-suspect-arrested-rape-kidnap

Report also in the Wail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-alerted-cops-hostage-British-backpacker.html

 

[MelmothTheLost]

The reports don't specify who the Pajero belongs to but it seems more likely it belongs to the man accused since the woman was described as a backpacker. I hope the Queensland police check it throroughly for DNA, not only in connection with the assaults on the present woman but also to see if there's evidence of him having used it to rape any others.

Whoever he is, he sounds like an incredibly dangerous man to be doing this as young as 22. This does not sound to me like a first offence but the work of a practised offender. I'm guessing that he would have been planning to kill this woman and leave her body somewhere in the outback since he could hardly let her go, so you have to wonder if there are other bodies out there that he is responsible for.

Almost certainly a future serial killer if he isn't already.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

And in the Telegraph:

British backpacker 'raped and kept captive at locations across Queensland for several weeks'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/06/british-backpacker-raped-kept-captive-throughout-queensland

ETA that the man has been named as Marcus Martin.

 

[Legally Bland]

CCTV from the service station and a bit of police statement/press conference.

[video=youtube;HzQUMQfNccU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzQUMQfNccU[/video]

 

[MsAnais]

She is SO lucky to have gotten away from him.

Has anyone found a FB page for him? (I'm struggling to find one but it may just be me.......)

 

[2991rfa]

She is SO lucky to have gotten away from him.

Has anyone found a FB page for him? (I'm struggling to find one but it may just be me.......)

No but I've got some clues. According to a DM article that has since changed some of the text (I found the original at pressreader.com) his Facebook lists New Zealand as his birth place. Also the same article mentions Todd Leahy...a friend who spoke about him changing his facebook status to married the minute they got together

 

[MelmothTheLost]

The Telegraph today has more details of the attacker's background, including a conviction for drug-fueled assault.

The Telegraph has learnt that the man, who has not been named for legal reasons, spent six months in prison in 2013 for a drug-fuelled attack in 2012, in which he ordered a pizza delivery and then attacked the driver and stole the pizza and less than $AUS20.

He had been partying with three friends in Cairns – taking LSD and alcohol during a housewarming party that had lasted three days – when they decided to “roll”, or rob, a pizza delivery driver. But it was the suspect – apparently to the surprise of his friends – who violently assaulted the man, taking a plank of wood and hitting the driver on the back of the head.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...r-week-kidnap-rape-ordeal-recovering-friends/

 

[MsAnais]

A new article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...accused-rapist-British-backpacker-Cairns.html

 

[2991rfa]

Anyone found the profile of Todd Leahy?

 

[MsAnais]

This is weird:

As a British backpacker who was allegedly kidnapped and repeatedly raped in the Australian outback recovers back home, she is subjected to fresh torment.
Heartless trolls stole photos from her social media accounts and used them to create fake profiles on escort sites in Cairns, Queensland.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...idnapped-UK-backpacker-used-escort-sites.html

 

[FrostOwl]

May 2019: Sentenced to 10 years.
Road trip rapist gets 10 years' jail for month-long kidnap ordeal

 

[Catmommy]

Doesn't seem like nearly long enough, does it?

 

[dotr]

20 Dec 2018
Face-tattooed man admits raping British backpacker during two-month kidnap ordeal in Australian outback

''Marcus Allyn Keith Martin, 23, pleaded guilty in October to three counts of rape
Staff at the garage alerted police with their concerns after the woman, then 22, drove off without paying for fuel.

Abductor Martin was found hiding in a secret compartment in the boot of their Mitsubishi 4x4.''